Hello all, haven't been around for a while.
Anyway as some of you know I have an iPhone 4. My girlfriend wants an iPhone 3Gs for xmas as she says she prefers the way it feels to the IP4. Fair enough.
She's already on O2 but only on Pay As You Go, she doesn't want a contract. My options are as follows, either buy her a Pay and Go iPhone 3GS straight from O2. Gonna set me back £380 or try my luck on Ebay and bag a factory unlocked one. I've seen one's on there from 'official vendor's who supply factory unlocked iPhone 3Gs', some are a little more then the O2 price and some from normal punters like me are a bit less.
I've owned 2 iPhone's before, the original and the current iPhone 4. But i've never had one that has been locked so I've never done this activation thing? Buying it straight from O2 would be the simplest thing to do, but am I right in assuming that she can simply put her current O2 pay and go sim in the phone, hook it to Itunes and it should work?
Also we both use the same laptop, the itunes on the laptop at the mo I obviously use with my factory unlocked IP4. Is it fine to have another iPhone running off that iTunes as well??
Just want some pointers before I bite the bullet really. If the phone was for me I would happily search through ebay until I found the one that suited me, i've bought plenty of phones from there before without problem. It's just the fact it's a present that is making me think perhaps I should just buy it straight from O2.
Cheers!
Anyway as some of you know I have an iPhone 4. My girlfriend wants an iPhone 3Gs for xmas as she says she prefers the way it feels to the IP4. Fair enough.
She's already on O2 but only on Pay As You Go, she doesn't want a contract. My options are as follows, either buy her a Pay and Go iPhone 3GS straight from O2. Gonna set me back £380 or try my luck on Ebay and bag a factory unlocked one. I've seen one's on there from 'official vendor's who supply factory unlocked iPhone 3Gs', some are a little more then the O2 price and some from normal punters like me are a bit less.
I've owned 2 iPhone's before, the original and the current iPhone 4. But i've never had one that has been locked so I've never done this activation thing? Buying it straight from O2 would be the simplest thing to do, but am I right in assuming that she can simply put her current O2 pay and go sim in the phone, hook it to Itunes and it should work?
Also we both use the same laptop, the itunes on the laptop at the mo I obviously use with my factory unlocked IP4. Is it fine to have another iPhone running off that iTunes as well??
Just want some pointers before I bite the bullet really. If the phone was for me I would happily search through ebay until I found the one that suited me, i've bought plenty of phones from there before without problem. It's just the fact it's a present that is making me think perhaps I should just buy it straight from O2.
Cheers!
