iphone in israel?????

[ezbaiby]

hey my friend has a iphone 2g that he wants to sell. im goin to israel in a week for the rest of the year and i wanted to know if there was anyway to use the iphone in israel without any ridiculous rates.

[jtesnani]

unlock the phone and use a local sim, if israel is also on the gsm network with the same frequencies (1900); otherwise you'll have to pay international rates of whoever you use here and yeah that will be expensive

but if israel's providers have ridiculous rates, then there's nothing you can do

[ezbaiby]

i was looking into it a little and saw these sim card things where u have to cut the new sim card to fit and use a speacial unlocking sim card....is this the only way to do it or is there a software only change to unlock

[jtesnani]

there is a software unlock for the original iphone. search in the wiki section here for winpwn or quickpwn and following instructions for jailbreak and unlock

[iPh0wned]

you should be able to unlock the 2g. once done, you shouldnt have any problems in Israel.... i use my Rogers Blackberry pearl there every year (prior to getting my iphone) . I bought a pay as you go Sim card with Cellcom . you just reload the card (minutes and texts are pretty cheap), but best of all all phone companies give you free incoming there....

[ezbaiby]

ok so two questions now....is unlocking basically the same as jailbreaking....becc jailbreaking isnt a problem for me.....and iphowned do u know about the cell services in israel........im going there for a year next week and im trying to figure out what the best plan to get locally was.....the cheapest plan in america to bring to israel is 10 cents a minute and i need something more like a regular phone service here with much lower rates...btw thanks everyone so far for what uve told me its a real help

unlock the phone and use a local sim, if israel is also on the gsm network with the same frequencies (1900); otherwise you'll have to pay international rates of whoever you use here and yeah that will be expensive

but if israel's providers have ridiculous rates, then there's nothing you can do

the provider i am considering says that the phone i use with their sim card has to be 1800 mghz...would that work or it has to be 1900?

[jtesnani]

It will work. Sorry I meant to say 1800. This phone should have quadband 850/900/1800/1900. I've used it in Asia and it worked fine

[eyallevi9]

i am in israel now i unlocked mine with quickpwn and purchased a prepaid sim from orange! you can also add hebrew to the phone from hebdev.com
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