After a tweet from Steve Marshall this morning, I took another read through my guide to enabling PAYG data on an iPhone in the US. In the process of checking the links, it now appears that O2 will allow contract customers to unlock their iPhone 4. Previously, O2 didn’t allow iPhone 4 unlocks during their launch period (at first, iPhone 4 handsets were only available to existing O2 customers) - but did for all previous iPhone handsets.
If you do unlock the phone you’re still bound by the minimum contract you signed, remember, but it does mean that if you’re travelling to the US for SXSW or WWDC you can simply take one iPhone and pop an AT&T SIM in. Engadget’s guide on hacking a full-size SIM to Micro-SIM will probably come in handy.
All the details are on the O2 website.
Posted on Saturday January 22nd, 2011
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