• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Any Iphone on VM

G

gbout35

Lurker
To all you phone experts, as I am not. All the phones currently on VM are made specificly for VM so they can they can easily regulate what phones are allowed to be use on their service. When the Iphone comes out It sounds like it will be just an unlocked Iphone. I certainly don't think that Apple will make a VM specific version. So with that I mind how would they now if you tried to use any unlocked Iphone that you might have or purchased.

Gbout:D
 
Why wouldn't they make a VMUSA specific device? They're product whores.

I highly doubt VMUSA is going to start letting any device on their network willy nilly. They have allowed some Sprint devices, but that has been it.
 
Well to my knowledge, and I may be wrong but Iphones aren't carrier branded or loaded down with carrier bloatware. An Iphone is an Iphone to start no matter what carrier.

Gbout
 
It would be nice, but I highly doubt it. If that were the case, why would VM be selling them at such a high price?
 
They aren't selling them "at such a high price." They are selling them at the standard unlocked price.
 
MediocreBadGuy said:
The CDMA and GSM iPhones are still different internally
Click to expand...

On the 4S the phones have both CDMA and GSM internals. However there is a twist, they are still locked by carrier within the US. Check this article out, How U.S. Carriers Fool You Into Thinking Your iPhone 4S Is Unlocked - Forbes.

Taken from that article:
What consumers need to understand is that there are actually four different versions of the iPhone 4S: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and Apple. Only the Apple phone, available from their stores or on-line, is fully unlocked and can be used on any carrier outside the United States. The other phones are permanently locked and cannot ever be used on another carrier in the U.S. Even if you spend $800 for an unlocked phone as I did and dedicate it to a single U.S. carrier, you are locked into that carrier forever if you want to keep using the iPhone. Neither Apple or the other carriers will fully unlock your carrier phone.
Click to expand...
 
MacFett said:
They aren't selling them "at such a high price." They are selling them at the standard unlocked price.
Click to expand...

That may be true (Even though it's a very bloated Apple price), but you can easily find them much cheaper, and you could always buy a used Iphone. VM is offering the Iphone in order to help Sprint fill it's obligation to Apple, If it was possible to bring any Iphone onto VM, I would think they would price them more competitively in order to sell as many as possible.
 
metsfan99 said:
That may be true (Even though it's a very bloated Apple price), but you can easily find them much cheaper, and you could always buy a used Iphone. VM is offering the Iphone in order to help Sprint fill it's obligation to Apple, If it was possible to bring any Iphone onto VM, I would think they would price them more competitively in order to sell as many as possible.
Click to expand...

And take a hit to their wallet? Yea, right.
 
metsfan99 said:
That may be true (Even though it's a very bloated Apple price), but you can easily find them much cheaper, and you could always buy a used Iphone. VM is offering the Iphone in order to help Sprint fill it's obligation to Apple, If it was possible to bring any Iphone onto VM, I would think they would price them more competitively in order to sell as many as possible.
Click to expand...


The price is competitive considering it's not connected to a contract. If you want to use it on VM USA and buy it used, you'll have to wait until another VM USA customer sells theirs. Besides, I think that Sprint has already fulfilled it's obligation to Apple. Otherwise Sprint wouldn't be offering their current customers the iPhone 4s for 25 bucks if they renew their contracts... which is what they offered my X husband if he would renew. He currently has the Intercept and would rather keep it than have an iPhone. Can't say that about my old neighbors though. He took the bait and got one for 25 bucks, then got his wife to dump the OpV on VM USA and got her on Sprint with the iPhone 4s. When I spoke with her roughly 2 weeks ago, she was bitching about how she wanted her OpV back lol (we can't text each other anymore because of that stupid iPhone. But I can text her hubby. Go figure.)
 
Bahahah

d176c1c3-2571-9340.jpg
 
I'm planning on buying the 4s on cricket for only $500 with the GSM slot unlocked if I ever need it (it comes like that). Then I should be able to activate the esn on. VM. I'm going to wait on more info first. However, I for anyone wanting to buy the 4s GSM unlocked, and it's better to pay $500 than $650 from Apple.
 
shiv81 said:
I'm planning on buying the 4s on cricket for only $500 with the GSM slot unlocked if I ever need it (it comes like that). Then I should be able to activate the esn on. VM. I'm going to wait on more info first. However, I for anyone wanting to buy the 4s GSM unlocked, and it's better to pay $500 than $650 from Apple.
Click to expand...

But both cricket and virgin are cdma.

Plus, I heard that cricket will NOT allow flashing of the iPhone.
 
Not really worth linking unless the article references an official statement from either Sprint or VM USA.

Unfortunately, here lately the news articles about VM USA phones have been less than reliable. Even the Twitter/Facebook pages for VM USA haven't been correct.
 
shiv81 said:
In the Engadget post, it said that it would be unlocked from the start. I can try to find the link and post it here.
Click to expand...

Probably not. Engadget is very likely wrong and/or confused.

Right now, you can NOT buy an unlocked, CDMA iPhone. The unlocked iPhone available at your local Apple store or online is unlocked for GSM networks only. From store.apple.com:

The unlocked iPhone works only on supported GSM networks, such as AT&T in the U.S. When you travel internationally, you can also use a micro-SIM card from a local GSM carrier. The unlocked iPhone will not work with CDMA carriers such as Verizon Wireless or Sprint.

If you don
Click to expand...
 
Whether your iPhone is unlocked or not, I highly doubt Virgin will allow you to activate a non-Virgin branded iPhone on their network.
 
There is no such thing as an unlocked CDMA phone, and also it's against the law to flash a phone to a carrier without thier consent. Even if all that was ignored you still need a donor phone to flash on a CDMA network, that only makes sense if you could get a phone with the same services provisioned for a cheaper price on the same carrier . Obviously there is none so this is a non starter.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom