The only way to get unlocked iPhones is to buy full price at official Apple Online/Retail Store. All unlocked iPhones can now be used anywhere in the world, regardless of supported bands. 

Also, to people who are buying from China or Hong Kong: Be warned that the model number for sale in Malaysia (A1778/A1784) is different from the iPhones sold there. Same goes for Japan or US iPhones too (unless you go with AT&T or T-Mobile).

However, in most cases you can't submit them for warranty claim at Malaysian AASPs. You definitely won't get support for those other models here in Malaysia, since AASPs are only allowed to order replacement devices with model numbers sold locally. For those models, you will have to go Singapore cuz only Apple Asia HQ can override that policy.

Now you must consider pros and cons, here's a handy chart (with explanation below):

Model	Sold in	AASP support	Network support	FeliCa support
A1660/A1661	HK/US/ZH	No	CDMA^, GSM*	No
A1778/A1784	MY/SG/WW	Yes	GSM	No
A1779/A1785	JP	No	GSM, CDMA	Yes

^ A1660/A1661 (CDMA) [Sold in US]:  Not supported locally, but has more network bands. Can be used on CDMA carriers like Verizon or Sprint. Can't support FeliCa.

* A1660/A1661 (GSM) [Sold in HK/ZH]:  Not supported locally, but has more network bands. Can't be used on CDMA carriers like Sprint in US or SoftBank in Japan. Can't support FeliCa.

A1778/1784 [Sold in AU/MY/SG/worldwide]:  Supported by local AASPs, but has less network bands. Can't be used on CDMA carriers like Verizon in US or SoftBank in Japan. Can't support FeliCa.

A1779/1785 [Sold only in JP]:  Not supported locally, can be used with CDMA carriers like SoftBank in Japan, can't turn off camera shutter sound, but supports FeliCa (which is Japan's version Touch N Go. It's literally everywhere there) so you can use e-money cards like Suica with Apple Pay.

i got some advice for whoever planning to buy iphone or ipad from oversea.
since every country might get different model/product code.
there is something you guys need to know.

apple make the product to comply the law or rules and regulation for every single country.
some are hardware and some are software even packaging are different, not every iphone/ipad are the same

example:-
japan - iphone and ipad which selling in japan are unable to mute the photo capture sound ("ka-cha" sound) no matter you mute your phone or not and no single setting to mute that sound too. not just only iphone actually most of the camera and phone selling in japan have to comply this policy.

Kingdom of saudi arabia - remember few years ago, i got a customer which purchasing her ipad from Dubai. but she found out the facetime feature are not install on her ipad. and facetime is not able to download from app store since it was part of the ios.

we tried to restore her ipad to latest os we had that time, but the ios detect her ipad is ksa model so the facetime still not able to show in her ipad.

you can search on google for "missing facetime app"

hope this can help.

Morning all,

For those having reliability issues with the Finger Print system, at what percentage (%) of the time would the FP access fail on you and had to use the 4 pin password to enter home screen?

I myself assigned 4 fingers, r.thump & r.index and l.thumb & l.index and come to think back had only about 2 occasions that it failed to register and both of them was when i had it on a phone stand on the dashboard holder. I deduced that it failed due to the shaking of the unit. Thanks.

My friend dump my phone into a ice bucket yesterday and today my phone keep on restarting. I have pull it out immediately after he throw in. Now my phone is in my rice bowl. Hope it will recover after tomorrow. Is this consider warranty void? Anyone experience this before?

i read somewhere before register the same finger twice will improve the sensitivity of the home button. works well for me

Anyone here uses CarPlay? I am unable to sync my CarPlay with my proton persona haha

I want to use the Bluetooth function hmmm

Bro u sent urs for warranty ady? Any updates?

Normally Apple wont down price... MYR keep drop... still can promotion haha~ Who got promotion? Apple Online store still the same price

hi guys,

may i know how was your iphone 7 or 7+ battery performance?

my 7+ can drain off from 73% till 23% over night....
is this normal? can go for warranty or not? less than 2 months only

Hey guys just an off topic question regarding my usage of iPhone 7+ .

If I were to block a caller let's say from the address book.

And this caller calls me up. Will he or she receive any notification on me blocking all the calls, messages and etc??

Please advise

Thanks man. But I don't think I'm the only one with touch id issues, some of my friends unit oso like that. Mine got so bad that I couldn't even register a fingerprint and I couldn't tahan anymore. It was working great for the first month so I'll keep an eye on my replacement unit, will report again one month later hehe

On the topic of blocked caller,
If I blocked a number and delete it from the phone.
Does it mean that the caller will be permanently blocked from contacting my number?

Later if I don't want my number and it goes to a new user.
Will the caller number be be still blocked from contacting the new user?

I use screen protector bought from Machinese (Rm98) and found hairline scratch on it after 2 months 

But luckily it is on the screen protector and not on the phone so i guess i will leave my phone protected with a screen protector. Rather be safe than sorry 

I didn't success selling of my phone. Probably can't get already.

Wow... haven't heard or seen TS here for quite some time liow... Tomorrow buy 4D