I read a lot of comments about iphone 3G need someone to help me on this matter. I plan to go to these countries soon; Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand and I plan to buy officially unlocked iphone 3G from there. In Hong Kong, I can buy online the official unlocked iphone 3G from apple store ONLY using local issued credit card and the stuff can ONLY be delivered to local address. In Aust and NZ, I need to officially unlock it thru the respective mobile operators.
(1) how can I instantly verify over there that this iphone 3G will works perfectly with our local SIM card? Can i bring maxis/celcom/digi prepaid/postpaid SIM card to verify this?
(2) Should I directly active with iTunes over there with their local SIM card or our local SIM card ?

If someone out there has this experience, pls advice.

Hong Kong and NZ sets are definitely UNLOCKED out of box, but for Australia, only OPTUS one is UNLOCKED (by paying AUD50 or more) to unlock it.

(1) how can I instantly verify over there that this iphone 3G will works perfectly with our local SIM card? Can i bring maxis/celcom/digi prepaid/postpaid SIM card to verify this?
Many of us are using NZ, SG, HK or AUS sets... all these are usable with M'sia Telcos SIM Card. You may check out [ Here ] to see which countries sell UNLOCKED unit.

(2) Should I directly active with iTunes over there with their local SIM card or our local SIM card ?
You must activate it with your Local SIM Card that you wanna use. Either you activate it there or back in M'sia, it doesn't matter.
As long as you activate it with your wanna use SIM Card, it should have no problem at all.

Correct me if i'm wrong.


P/S : Perhaps you should have posted it [ Here ]

This post has been edited by friends: Nov 2 2008, 02:40 PM

For australia, only optus and telstra sell it prepaid, optus charges 80 dollar to unlock while telstra charges 150 dollar. All the iphones can be unlocked, vodafone, optus and telstra.

TS,which part of australia are u coming to?

if ur coming to my place,i can get unlock iphones for u

HI Clarencerx


I'm going to Melbourne and Perth this Nov and then going to Hong Kong and Auckland in Dec.
btw, I heard it takes longer time to officially unlock the iphone 3G in Australia. Is it true?

get a official Hong Kong unit or buy from Auckland (vodafone shop) for a peace of mind... no more worries about official unlocking as it is unlocked out of the box (still need to activate using iTunes before u can use it)

I think what Clarencerx meant is that he can get the iPhone unit before hand and have it unlock, then when u go to Perth, u can collect it from him, thus no more worries about waiting for the phone to get unlock. afaik it will take 1-3 days to get the iPhone unlock

This post has been edited by psyeo: Nov 2 2008, 07:09 PM

woot! just got my iphone 3g white from HK.

plugged the sim card in and it works like a charm.

registered and loaded all my craps into it and i still have 10gb free space. omfg. omfg. i need to waste space!!! fast!!!

lol. im just soooo happy to get it. love the freaking phone!

it pwned every other phone. period.

LOL 10GB free space, u have so little craps, haha...anyway congratz, purchase from Apple store online?

yea. god damn. so little craps for now. haha.

shud be online store cuz i called up my HK pals and said " dude, iphone 3g white. buy one and pass it to xxx to bring back. dun care how u do it. just do it."

pwned

p/s : yea. he ordered online. i still owe him the cash. lol

What about the price?
Which country offers the nest one?
or is it all the same.

all different. there is a thread on this. search search search
but i can tell u, if not mistaken, NZ and AUS cheapest if u can still find

as everyone has said, it is a very repetitive question answered several times already. use the sticky thread or do a quick search