Questions on selling a phone

[bdbx18]

I think I'm going to pony up a few hundy to get an iphone since I like its browser capabilities and am tired of my phone's extra bulk.

Questions are (a) what's the best place to sell it other than ebay ? (b) I guess I must keep the sim but what does the buyer do to get another one ? (c) does ne1 know if I can just activate an iphone with an existing account ?

Gotta say I'll miss the APmemo's free-form stylus input which I use quite a bit.

Thanks a bunch

[Cavey.co.uk]

I think I'm going to pony up a few hundy to get an iphone since I like its browser capabilities and am tired of my phone's extra bulk.

Questions are (a) what's the best place to sell it other than ebay ? (b) I guess I must keep the sim but what does the buyer do to get another one ? (c) does ne1 know if I can just activate an iphone with an existing account ?

Gotta say I'll miss the APmemo's free-form stylus input which I use quite a bit.

Thanks a bunch

a) No idea.

b) They can do anything they want. Either pay-as-you-go or contract. HOWEVER, if it is not SIM Unlocked (ie you bought it from a phone provider such as T-Mobile and they subsidised the price of the phone and locked it to only accept SIM cards for their network) they will require a SIM from the same provider you bought it from UNLESS you (or they) unlock it.

Note this doesn't apply to phones which are supplied unlocked such as phones from Dopod and HTC.

For details on how to unlock a Hermes, see the page on the wiki here (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_SimUnlock)

c) No idea, but I would guess it would be SIM locked, probably to AT&T, so as long as you have an account with AT&T you can use it.

This method of unlocking an iPhone made me chuckle (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2007/07/01/iphone-unlocked-accidently/), although I don't know enough about the iPhone to be capable of saying whether its worth it.

[bdbx18]

Thanks but mine is already unlocked.
I guess I'll need to talk to ATT about transfering the plan.


a) No idea.

b) They can do anything they want. Either pay-as-you-go or contract. HOWEVER, if it is not SIM Unlocked (ie you bought it from a phone provider such as T-Mobile and they subsidised the price of the phone and locked it to only accept SIM cards for their network) they will require a SIM from the same provider you bought it from UNLESS you (or they) unlock it.

Note this doesn't apply to phones which are supplied unlocked such as phones from Dopod and HTC.

For details on how to unlock a Hermes, see the page on the wiki here (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_SimUnlock)

c) No idea, but I would guess it would be SIM locked, probably to AT&T, so as long as you have an account with AT&T you can use it.

This method of unlocking an iPhone made me chuckle (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2007/07/01/iphone-unlocked-accidently/), although I don't know enough about the iPhone to be capable of saying whether its worth it.

[maevro]

Why are we talking about an iPhone in this forum?

I thought you need the iPhone plan to use the iPhone with AT&T, not your existing plan.

I have no idea of where you live but I use Craigslist to sell all of my phones.

If you are selling your phone, just take out the SIM, they should have their own. If they don't they can just go to the store and get one.