The first iPhone that Apple sold for a carrier other than AT&T was the iPhone 4. You could use it on Verizon but only if you bought that version of the iPhone. Starting with the iPhone 4S, things changed. Rather than having two versions of the phone, there was one that worked on both networks. A single iPhone that had antennas for both GSM and CDMA, toted as a "World Phone" by Apple. But if you wanted the best of both worlds, you had to buy from Verizon or Sprint, as the AT&T "version" didn't work with CDMA (according to Apple's website). Well it seems the same is true if you buy an unlocked iPhone.
Apple has recently released an unlocked iPhone 5 on their website for U.S. residents, and retail for Canada. Start at $649 for 16GB, and going up to 64GB at $849. However, these "world phones" as Apple calls them are blocked from CDMA networks. I'm not sure if Apple ripped out the CDMA antenna or what, but if I bought an iPhone unlocked I should have the right to go to Verizon or Sprint and get it activated. However Apple says I can't.
The reason I have yet to buy an iPhone (or any smartphone for that matter) is because I'm always in an area that has Wi-Fi, so it seems stupid to me to buy a data plan. However if you get some subsidized with any of the major carriers, they require you get a data plan. As is their right, since they are paying for the majoring of the iPhone bill. However with an unlocked iPhone, one I paid full price for, I was hopping I could get away with not paying for date. But since the unlocked iPhone is actually "locked" to AT&T, that won't happen any time soon. I despise AT&T for reasons I mentioned before.
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