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Apple iPad 2
16GB - Black - WIFI
Condition: It's been in a Otterbox case since the day I bought it new. So mint condition!
Comes with: Apple Box, Cable, Usb Adapter, Otterbox Case, BNIB Apple Dock
Price: $350.00 obo
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Apple iPhone 4S
16GB - Black - Sprint (Clean ESN)
Condition: It's been in a Magpul case since the day I bought it new. So mint condition!
Comes with: Apple Box, Cable, Usb Adapter, and a few Magpul cases
Price: $250.00 obo
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Not looking for any trades, sorry.
Paypal verified. Ships out same day as long as payment is made before 3PM EST.

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BR101 said:
Don't quote me on this.. But I think you can. Just gotta unlock it. Maybe someone else could chime in.
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Sprint uses CDMA, while T-Mobile uses GSM. Because of this, you cannot use a T-Mobile phone on Sprint, or a Sprint phone on T-Mobile.

Some CDMA networks:
Verizon Wireless, Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, and U.S. Cellular

Some GSM networks:
AT&T and T-Mobile

So long as the network technologies are the same, you can unlock and set up your phone for another network, though.
 
N Gremory said:
Sprint uses CDMA, while T-Mobile uses GSM. Because of this, you cannot use a T-Mobile phone on Sprint, or a Sprint phone on T-Mobile.

Some CDMA networks:
Verizon Wireless, Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, and U.S. Cellular

Some GSM networks:
AT&T and T-Mobile

So long as the network technologies are the same, you can unlock and set up your phone for another network, though.
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Thanks! How come my iphone 4S for Sprint has a Sim card port if CDMA doesn't use sim cards?
 
BR101 said:
Thanks! How come my iphone 4S for Sprint has a Sim card port if CDMA doesn't use sim cards?
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My family had an iPhone 4 on Verizon that didn't take a SIM, and a 4S that did.
I believe that some CDMA phones use CSIM cards, which is like a SIM card for the CDMA network?
Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how it works.

I did a quick internet search. Here's part of what it said..
It's true that Verizon and Sprint use a different fundamental network technology from what AT&T and T-Mobile use. But keep in mind that the iPhone 4S is exactly the same in terms of hardware regardless of carrier. This means it has a CDMA radio as well as a GSM radio.
But on the "unlocked" iPhone, which can be bought at full price from Apple, and on an unlocked AT&T iPhone, the CDMA portion of the phone is disabled and unusable.

In other words, the iPhone 4S has the hardware for both GSM and CDMA, but, unlocked versions only work for the network type it was for? (Unlocked from a network meaning whatever that network uses; unlocked from Apple being GSM)

Sorry for kind of steering your topic a little off track.
Also, I don't entirely understand the whole deal with the different technologies, but I know that you can only use unlocked GSM phones on GSM networks and unlocked CDMA phones on CDMA networks. Of course, I also don't know exactly how that works, overseas.

Best of luck. :)
 
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