If it’s not unlocked there is a way how to unlocked your iPhone 3G without using turbo SIM Card but make sure your “base band version is 2.28.00 not 2.30.03. Is your iPhone 3G unlocked? If it’s unlocked you can use any Sim Card (GSM network) because iPhone is QUAD BAND.
We asked the seller for another one, but was told the store carried only one iPhone. A Filipino customer was inspecting the unit when we came. The third store we went to was where we found the cheapest iPhone. No need for laborious hacking procedures. The seller told us that the unit is open line and ready for use, meaning, one merely has to put a SIM card for it to work. Remember we’re talking about September 2007 here, not August 2008 when Globe officially launched the iPhone in the Philippine market.Īnother store was selling the iPhone for P33,000 (US$785). “Bago ‘yan, two weeks pa lang na-launch kaya mahal (It’s new, just came out of the market two weeks ago that’s why it’s pricey),” he declared. Apparently unaware that the phones were unauthorized units, the store seller told us that the iPhone is expensive because it just “came out of the market” several weeks ago. One store sold the iPhone for a flat price of P35,000 (US$833). A year before Apple iPhone 3G phones arrived in the Philippines (thanks to Globe Telecom), hundreds of these exclusive cellphones showed up in several mobile phone retailers in the country.īack in September 2007, we went to Virra Mall in Greenhills and found at least three stores selling open-line, ready-to-use 8GB iPhones for as low as P30,000 (US$714).