Comments on: Officially unlocked iPhones not really unlocked

The phones are country-locked, meaning they can't be used with foreign SIM cards.

[saintchuck]

French law

Wouldn't that disallow all cellphones? Purchasing a cellphone requires you to purchase a contract or minutes for a pay as go plan. Heck, you couldn't sell a car because it requires fuel. Or a motherboard because it requires a processor, memory, etc. I don't agree with Apples exclusive contracts but that law is idiotic.

[akaoscar]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

from what I've seen it's more like a law telling that you have to give the customers the possibility to buy the car without fuel or a cellphone without a plan. It won't make it impossible, just requires an extra option

[jpelaezcn]

I am currently living in Spain, and I have my iPhone from abroad, so I was a little pissed off I cannot use it here. I made a little research and this is what I found:

A. You can unlock it if you have an old firmware version. You musy "hack" it. I dont feel very safe about this.
B. You can use a little sim card called XSIM. You put this card between the original sim and the iPhone and this little card will trick the iPhone to think the foreign sim card is ok.

So I choose to buy this XSIM here in Spain, I got it at http://www.liberar.es and the folks there were very kind, I asked them a lot of questions and they explained me all the stuff and even offered me a return back if the XSIM was not working.

Finally Im using my US iPhone in Spain! :)