Another iPhone question :P

ooEy · 19 Sep 2008 at 13:34

If i were to purchase an official O2 pay as you go iPhone 3G would i be able to use my contract O2 sim card or are these phones locked to pay as you go?

Cheers guys (and girls

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z0mbi3 · 19 Sep 2008 at 13:46

Any o2 sim will work in it, contract or not.

ooEy · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:43

apparantly not, ive just spoken to O2 tech support and they say that they are locked to pay as you go sims

kip02 · 19 Sep 2008 at 17:45

I've just got a pay as you go iphone and tested my mams contract o2 sim in and it worked fine. Didn't work on vodafone or t-mobile but was worth a shot.

OzZie · 19 Sep 2008 at 18:42

Sorry to go slightly off topic:

I have a v1 iphone (non 3g) unlocked using Orange sim via Winpwn. Could i get something like the 02 Simplicity contract and just use that?

I'm only after a cheapish contract to tie me over for a year or so, but dont want to have to pay £35+ each month for a newer 3g contract.

Thanks.

z0mbi3 · 19 Sep 2008 at 21:43

ooEy said:
apparantly not, ive just spoken to O2 tech support and they say that they are locked to pay as you go sims

That's simply not true.

You can only lock a phone to the network, no more specific than that.

ooEy · 19 Sep 2008 at 21:55

ok not that im calling anyone a liar but r u sure?, £349.99 is a lot of money for a phone i cant use.

z0mbi3 · 19 Sep 2008 at 23:22

If you want I can try and check in work on Monday, bound to be someone having done it, however the O2 forums have a few threads that indicate it'll work fine.

http://customerforum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7882&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
http://customerforum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8186&sid=46d88e6fdcef7060e1dacb45f9d480c3
http://customerforum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8127

Useless Git · 20 Sep 2008 at 09:32

ooEy said:
ok not that im calling anyone a liar but r u sure?, £349.99 is a lot of money for a phone i cant use.

I bought one and put my Simplicity sim in it, it works perfectly