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iPhone on O2 UK

  • 01-12-2009 5:25pm
    #1
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭


    Last year I bought a SE C902 from Phones 4 U in Belfast on O2 PAYG. The sales assistant told me that although the phone was branded O2, once I purchased an O2 sim card and £20 of call credit, I could use the phone with my Meteor PAYG sim card. I got the phone there and then and we've had a great relationship since then. Bless her kind heart.

    Recently though I have been considering an iPhone, so have been wondering can I buy the iPhone on O2 UK and use my Meteor sim card in it back home ?

    (I know I could swap to O2 PAYG here for the same price but I quite like Meteor and I don't want to go unlocking the iPhone then having to avoid updates etc whilst waiting for the phone to be unlocked again.)


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Paddy@CIRL wrote: »
    Recently though I have been considering an iPhone, so have been wondering can I buy the iPhone on O2 UK and use my Meteor sim card in it back home ?

    The iPhone is a different beast to other phones.

    In short, no, you cannot buy an iPhone from the UK and use it with Irish operators. You would have to unlock/jailbreak it.

    If you could do that, don't you think everyone on this forum would have done it? :)


  • #3
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Was kind of half-thinking that but it wouldn't be the first time I've missed the boat on these things !

    Is there much hardship involved in unlocking a new 3G S ? Is there many people here using the iPhone on Meteor ?


  • #4
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Paddy@CIRL wrote: »
    Is there much hardship involved in unlocking a new 3G S ? Is there many people here using the iPhone on Meteor ?

    Have a read of the sticky. I'm a bit behind on the latest, but I don't believe it is too tricky.

    As for using the iPhone on Meteor, I used the 2G iPhone on Meteor for over a year and a half without problem.


  • #5
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Cheers, thanks a million !


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