iPhone Atlas reported that officially unlocked iPhone in France is not really unlocked. It said the iPhone is officially unlocked within France, you can only use France operator’s SIM card. They also said these iPhones cannot use other country SIM cards. The Phone and SMS function will crash if you tried to use other country (e.g. US) SIM cards.
iPhone Atlas is actually from CNET. I don’t want to doubt this because it is such a huge site. But, first, if the iPhone can’t use other country SIM cards, how can it called officially unlocked? If phone function crash, you can always use iWorld to fix the problem. iWorld can help to use other country SIM card even that country doesn’t have iPhone officially come out yet. But another user “realindoor” confirmed that iWorld can’t fix the problem.
sam from hackint0sh pointed out that:
“If so, it would be somehow legal extremely problematic towards calling this “unlock” which is required by french laws. ”
Note if this is true, Apple does not conform the France law. The best news is “kevinbr” will try his officially unlocked iPhone with other country’s SIM card.
This would seem very clever by Apple and does not break any French laws! i.e. It is illegal in France for a network to only offer phones locked to their own network. A French buyer has the freedom by law to choose which supplier they buy from and which network to join……. IN FRANCE !!!
It says nothing about using a foreign network … Why would it?
No French citizen in their right mind would use a German sim card and pay roaming charges in their own Country!.
I live in Ireland and the UK O2 phone will not take a Irish O2 Sim card when jailbroken. Even though it’s the same company.
Very Clever Apple, very clever !!!
The Cat and Mouse game continues.