Are you sure it is 3200HKD???? And it is 3G not 2G???

I went through the whole mall at mong kok and the cheapest I find is around 4300HKD.

3200 sounds too cheap to be true. Also the source of these US 3G iphones are also questionable since I thought there are no PAYG option in the US?

Anyway I bought my PAYG Iphone yesterday at the Regent Street Apple store for 391GBP.

I must say the Apple store people are full of shi*

Firstly they claim that I CAN'T put in my O2 contract SIM into the PAYG iphone (and tried to change the Celluar data settings to payandgo.o2.co.uk)
Secondly they claim you have to top up EVERY month for a minimum of 10GBP to keep the PAYG SIm active?

I have tested my Iphone with the O2 contract SIM and it works fully (WIFI, 3G)

As for the minimum topup, I have confirmed with O2 and they said u only have to make 1 call every 6 months to keep the PAYG active.

How come the Apple geeks don't even know what they sell (which is the reason I never want to change to a Mac)

Sorry if the answer is obvious, but why did you want a PAYG iphone if you have an O2 contract?

I wouldn't expect them to know the details of O2's service plan to be honest. Thats O2's responsibility as network provider.

If they didn't know about the handset's features, well that would be a different story.

Well my Contract Iphone has been stolen, hence I need to get a new one without a contract!

I would've thought they will know whether the phone will FUNCTION or not if a different SIM card from the same carrier is inserted? They are also selling Iphone as a package, therefore they SHOULD know the plans.

ALSO I find their knowledge (even in the Genius Bar) is not that good and often they will jsut tell u to restore the phone or make up some BS excuse.

Actually we are both right. It was about $4300 for one, but for two I had him down to 7400. These iphones were US 3G phones locked to AT&T. I still didn't buy them just yet. Maybe next week.

@:-)

Has anyone used the new pwnage tool 3.1 to unlock the 1st gen iPhone?

I have not, though my understanding is that the first gen iPhone unlock takes advantage of more of a hardware exploit which means that you are able to jailbreak and unlock pretty much version of the software that Apple releases.

http://www.hackthatphone.com/3x/p_3_1_1g.html