Apple iPhone 4G 16GB Quadband World GSM Phone (Manufacturer Unlocked)

Product Description: Apple iPhone 4 16GB Black UK Sim Free Factory Unlocked Stocks, Not branded to any network : This device has never been locked to any network, simply import factory unlocked. Also known as legally unlocked / never locked / simfree edition. You can use this device with a SIM card from any 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and / or 3G HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 networks world wide. Unlike exchange cards branded subsequently unlocked iPhones, you can use this device to its full functionallity ; including accepting iTunes, software upgrades & etc.
Product Details:
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Item model number: iPhone 4 16GB
    • Product Reviews:
    Hi,

    I have purchased the glorious iphone 4 after 3 years of using Nokia E66. I wanted something more advanced and reliable, after a long wait, it arrived. when you see it for the first time, you will love the design and the shining black glass explicitly made of the same kind of a helicopter windshield, but the joy will disappear after the first day of using this device ... :(
    after spending more than $900 on a factory unlocked altered copy, I realized that it is made for kids who like touch screens and high res screen and doesn't care about functionality

    I'm selling it and never buy Apple products ever, I was shocked how people are buying this point!

    Problems faced on iphone 4:
    1. The phone is dropping most of the calls (it is not a carrier issue because the same smudge was working perfectly on the previous phone, this problem is found intensively on apple support forums)
    2. It doesn't connect to iTunes through Bluetooth! And you need to have the cable everywhere you be in motion!
    3. Lack of the simplest business functions like
    a. Rejecting calls with SMS if you are in a scheduled time
    b. A way to send business card through SMS
    4. Ring tones can't be more than 30sec (stupid because since stone age you can set a complete song as a ringtone!)
    5. If the phone is locked using a pass code it drops more calls and associates starts to ask you why you are not answering our calls (it is embarrassing)
    6. Apple still denying that this product has a fault in its antenna! Although adjectives resellers are saying you have to put this phone in a rubber case (you will lose the fancy look by covering this device near a $5 case) then why apple spent time on the design where you have to cover it) none since!

    As a result of all mentioned and abundantly more... DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT, it is a waste of money and it needs time to be a real phone

    Thank you Apple for fooling me!
    Story in short ->
    1. The first moment I see this stunning allure iPhone 4: I said WOW! I am totally in disbelief mode how one can make so beautiful thing. I am within total love with the lady.
    2. After living with this lady for some days: How could God (Apple) create so attractive with ugliest heart!!! I mean beauty is sometime very confusing but not that much.
    3. I am still in love with this stunningly beautiful lady: I return first iPhone 4 and try another iPhone 4. Still hoping for best.
    4. I get same replica of this lady. (God cannot create the exact replica of most beautiful things but Apple can)
    5. After living with this lady solitary for few days: I am more than happy to part my ways with this stunning beauty. Let me let somebody know you, in my whole life I have never be so happy to part my ways with so beautiful woman.
    6. Now I am in totally hate of this lady to the extent I even don't want to the face of this woman. I say: Hey Beautiful lady please go back to Apple's pretty store, museum or in REEL life (MOVIE). You have no place in my REAL vivacity.
    Interested in full version of the story? Please go head and read.

    My first review ever (FYI I am 35+ of age and bought plentiful products). I have never written any review for any product so far. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF WRITING THIS REVIEW IS TO SAVE YOU YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. SO HERE GOES THE ONE OF MOST HONEST REVIEW OF THE GREAT IPHONE 4 WITHOUT BEING MESMERIZED BY THE SHEER BEAUTY OF THE PHONE.
    SO READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU DO CARE OF YOUR MONEY ELSE YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO BUY IPHONE 4 AND HAVE YOUR EXPERIENCE OF YOUR OWN.
    I received my iPhone 4 almost 17 days back from AT&T on 12th Oct 2010. From the first day itself it started showing me all of its true colors.
    Pros:
    1. As everybody say great display (Retina display).
    2. Great and simple and nearly perfect touch user interface.
    3. Hands down the most beautiful phone with best built and finishing.
    4. 5MP HD camera.
    Cons:
    1. `ANTENNAGATE' -> From the moment we started using it we had that infamous 'antenna' problem. Everybody including us so much pissed with the voice quality suffered because of this issue that we preferred not to talk at all. Sometime the voice be so low at both ends that it was not audible at all. Even after putting the bumper on the phone did not solve the problem entirely. Sometime though rare we noticed the above antenna symptoms again. I PROUDLY SAY "I WAS ABLE TO PRODUCE THIS PROBLEM ON ALL FOUR IPHONE 4 I HAD COME ACROSS". ON ALL THE IPHONES THE SIGNAL BARS WENT TO 2 FROM 4-5. Many video can be found on youtube.com for the same (JUST CHECK THEM OUT THEY WILL FEEL YOU GREAT HORROR MOVIES IPHONE 4 BEAUTY LOVERS). This issue was not blown out of proportion as against what Steve Job's claimed.

    There are some very important things to make a note of here about this so called `most appreciated company' Apple and one of its best product iPhone4:
    (i) SEE THE CHANGING COLORS OF APPLE/APPLE CEO STEVE JOBS:
    (First) No such problem ->
    (Second) Not that big problem ->
    (Third) Others are having the same problem (Did you hear it since? Or at least others don't give trouble when you hold them in your normal style) ->
    (Fourth) Take the bumper ->
    (Fifth) Avoid holding within that position.

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs said `avoid holding that way'. Apple Please tell us why should customer amend their `normal' way of holding the phone that too after having paid so much price? Instead should not Apple should hold taken the moral responsibility of this mistake and recalled it?

    Apple/Steve should be ashamed of when they asked to asked customer to change the way of holding the phone. But how Steve could do that? Then he will no longer be the best CEO of the so called best company? (It would hold incurred the loss right?) Most ridiculous asking so far I guess. Why there should be any restriction on the most basic thing `holding the phone'. It's like one electronic switch company dictum please press the button in certain way else ...'

    (ii) This antenna problem comes into the play when most of the right handed general public hold the phone their most natural way. It seems that so big and quality conscious company have even failed to do even a simple usability and quality testing. Shame on you Apple!
    2. BATTERY -> Battery would run only for 24 hours at max in need using battery consuming features. So all claims of this many hours for standby, video, internet etc. looks false.
    3. TURNED OFF ITSELF -> On 17th day my iPhone 4 turned it stale on its own though it was fully charged.
    4. NO ADOBE FLASH SUPPORT -> Though `Adobe flash' is universal standard for web this iPhone 4 still does not support it. Great Mr. stubborn Apple!
    5. SPEAKER VOICE NOT GREAT -> Speaker voice not that loud and not acceptable for this so call great smart phone. Many Other phones outperform iPhone 4 in this area.
    6. VERY POOR SIGNAL RECEPTION AND CALL QUALITY -> Call voice quality average and not that great what one would expect from this phone. MY BLACKBERRY CURVE 8310 WITH THE SAME ATT NETWORK WOULD WORK EVEN IN UNDERGROUND PATH STATION AND THIS GREAT IPHONE 4 DOES NOT EVEN WORK INSIDE WALMART WHICH IS QUITE OPEN WITH THE SAME ATT NETWORK. POOREST SIGNAL RECEPTION. THE T-MOBILE NETWORK WITH THE BASIC PHONE (WHICH I USED TO HATE A LOT EARLIER) SEEMS WORK BETTER THANKS TO IPHONE 4. SO IN SHORT THE WORST COMBO IS WORKING BETTER WHEN COMPARED TO BEST COMBO (ATT AND IPHONE 4)
    Another couple shared the same entity with me. They told me that Blackberry Torch with worst network (T-Mobile) was have better reception than the dead combination iPhone and ATT.
    7. BAD 3G EXPERIENCE -> I noticed couple of other things with respect to 3G. When I keep 3G and cellular background on, the signal bars are very low where regular network is giving full bar and I was not able to access the web at all even within prime city locations. Not sure whose problem it is: Apple or service provider.
    Once I turned the cell data on and the bar became from four to one and then nought, after that my iPhone went into Searching mode forever though I turned off the cell data plan. As usual I restarted the phone and it worked. Looks like another bug contained by phone's simple functionality.
    8. BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP -> This iPhone's beauty is only skin deep. Beautiful by looks only not by heart (features). If you compare it near a woman then I would say its most beautiful woman but with HIV. So you can do doesn`t matter what with this stunning lady but those basic things (you know what I mean right?)
    9. THE LADY WITH HIV LIKES TO BE TOUCHED AGAIN AND AGAIN -> This woman with HIV will work only when you touch it, thanks to the touch interface of it. So if want turn off the phone press the button later touch (slide). You want to turn it on; press the button and touch (slide the finger on it). Want to make a call? Touch the phone application icon and then type the number (forget the perfect old days when you just touch either number key or phone up button and you could do it). Done with you call and want to finish the call? Don't forget to touch the end button. ENOUGH?
    10. EXPLOITING CONSUMERS -> Like other companies (Earlier Microsoft for example) Apple also started using malpractice and exploiting the situation because this company is now in command. Some examples :
    (i) AV component cable you have to buy from Apple only. Other's cable do not work. Now imagine the price of Apple's AV component cable: $49. That's almost 1/10 of the price of the phone itself.
    (ii) The iPhone cannot be (or as easily) unlocked as other phones.
    (iii) I heard if you unlock the iPhone the other's carrier's SIM does not go that well (May be because of its unlocking through software not through hardware).
    (IV) ON ATT AND APPLE WEB SITE YOU WILL NOT FIND ANY REVIEW OF THIS GREAT IPHONE 4. REASON: APPLE CANNOT MAKE ANYTHING LESS THAN GREAT! (HA HA HA)

    SUMMARY: THIS IPHONE 4 IS EVERYTHING ELSE BUT CELL PHONE. PLEASE SPEND YOU MONEY ON SOMETHING WORTH AND MAKE SURE AT LEAST YOU ARE GETTING WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THAT IS A CELL PHONE AT LEAST WITH GOOD RECEPTION AND CALL QUALITY.

    Question to adjectives of you ->
    Now I ask you all, the phone which cannot even offer you basic things well, what you would beckon it smart phone? There is one car with all kind of luxuries: AC, pool, TV and doesn`t matter what you can imagine but it does not drive well. The engine gives some trouble after every two hours. Will you buy that car? Are you going to live surrounded by that car? First thing for any vehicle obviously is smooth driving right? Same way most exalted thing for any cell phone is good signals and good voice quality. This phone lacks within those basic things. Apple, you have to get those basic things right. So when consumer reports did not suggest this phone to consumers they be absolutely right.
    I am not that happy with this phone.

    Update on 6th Nov 2010 ->
    I tried my second iPhone 4 after returning the first. The experience is getting worse about this iPhone 4 and I own decided to return the phone. ATT exchanged my first iPhone4 with already returned by other customer (Looks like other than me within was one more wise guy in this world who returned this phone). Shame on ATT who charged me the price of investigational piece and sent me the refurbished one.
    Bye Bye the great beautiful iPhone 4, Please go back to Apple Beautiful store or museum or in REEL existence (movie) , you have no place in my REAL life or pocket which is looking for just a fully clad usable cell phone.

    Update on 25th Nov 2010 ->
    I returned the second iPhone 4 also and start using my other spare $9 phone. CAN YOU BELIEVE $9 phone is working better in terms of voice and reception quality.

    SINCERE ADVICE ->->-> Please wait for subsequent iPhone. This iPhone 4 really sucks. Apple had become very over-confident when they release iPhone 4, because they know there are many BEAUTY BLIND ethnic group who would buy this DUMB BEAUTY without even reading review for it even though they had to stand in the QUEUE.
    I'm not a big fan of Apple, and bought a Nexus One a year back. Nice ideas, indifferently executed. Lots of small problems, never adequately address.

    Since I wanted to use prepaid AT&T in the USA and other carriers' SIMs in other countries, I looked for a factory unlocked iPhone 4 via Amazon. Got one, tried prepaid AT&T, worked fine over 3G. I cut down a prepaid T-Mobile (USA) SIM, and it worked fine over Edge. Tried a Movistar SIM in Buenos Aires, and it's great over 3G.

    The iPhone is a charming device and it works for me. Most of the Google apps (on which I depend) are now available, and work well. The iPhone holds WiFi connections where the Nexus drops them. I could go on.

    I will verbs to use the Nexus in the USA, but mostly because prepaid T-Mobile is superior to prepaid AT&T in some areas. The iPhone may be an exercise in megalomaniacal vanity, but it come out right.

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