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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by jdavis703 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:50AM (#29713733)
There’s still IMEI locks. A lot of prepaid carriers in Europe won’t or can’t sell you a SIM card for a US phone (one man claimed it was due to carriers trying to reduce phone theft). Note, my phone was fully paid for, and therefor unlocked.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by rchaud on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:38AM (#29714172)
With my Samsung Android phone I had to call my carrier's customer support and obtain the unlock code from them. So it wasn't unlocked automatically after it was fully paid for. When I traveled to Europe I just bought a local carrier SIM from a vending machine at the airport.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by Nextgrid on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:53AM (#29714311)
Automatic unlocks is mostly an iPhone thing. iOS manages SIM locks differently (in fact on modern devices the modem itself isn't even locked, instead it's all done at the OS-level; Apple has a mapping of serial number to authorized carrier(s), to which the carriers can request changes remotely without having to provide an unlock code or requiring any user action).
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by dkjaudyeqooe on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#29714207)
I've never encountered this, which country are you talking about?
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