Unlocking 3G...

[Brydo666]

I've found an iPhone 3G for sale locally I'd like to pick up from my partner.

The guy selling said it is just under a year old and has always been used on O2. It's currently on 3.1.3.

If I buy tonight, can I unlock it?

[maltloaf]

yes, but not tonight. You'll either need to fill out an official unlock form and put an o2 sim in (free for contract or £15 for payg) or wait for a new software unlock for the baseband that's on it.

Proper unlock is always better but will take a couple of days for them to process.

It's a REMOTE possibility that you'll be able to downgrade the baseband to a software unlockable version but that's only a possibility on the very earliest 3g (bootloader 5.08)

[Brydo666]

Thanks mate, I'll probably leave it for now.

Cheers