January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs showed the world the first iPhone. Remember the words of Steve Jobs during the presentation: “Today Apple reinvents the phone again”. Steve was not wrong, because iPhone changed the smartphone market. Apple iPhone has made mobile technology more user-friendly and easy to use.

We decided to tell you some interesting facts about iPhone, which everyone should know.

The first iPhone was supposed to be exclusive for Verizon

Apple needed a good partner to launch the first iPhone. The company addressed to the largest mobile operator of the United States Verizon and offered the first-generation iPhone as an exclusive. The operator rejected the proposal. Less successful AT&T needed a good an exclusive product that would compete with Verizon. That is why AT&T is accepted all the conditions of Apple, and even refused to deploy its own logo in the phone.

Manufacturer of processors for the iPhone has been Samsung

Many people believe that Apple and Samsung are the main competitors, however, they are also partners. In recent years, Apple is trying refuse the services of the Korean company, but it is very hard to do.

The most expensive part of the iPhone is its display

Many people think that the most expensive part of any smartphone is processor. But in really the most expensive element of the iPhone is display. For example, the display iPhone 6S Plus costs $52.5. Meanwhile, the price of the processor is estimated at $22.

The presentation of the first iPhone could completely fail

Many people do not know that the first iPhone of 2007 year was unfinished prototype. Jobs was advised to postpone the presentation, but he did not want to abandon the traditional “live” presentations. Smartphone constantly buggy. It turned on and off. It was not able to play a melody or video to the end. Also smartphone turned off when someone opens the browser and mail in the wrong order and could not work longer hours without rebooting. But Steve Jobs didn’t want to postpone the presentation. Apple engineers had to find the perfect sequence of actions and applications that allow Jobs to show the possibilities of still “raw” iPhone.

The software to jailbreak has a symbolic name

Jay Freeman is famous for the creating application that allows users to install the utility on iPhone by free developers and distributed outside the App Store. Freeman called his program Cydia. The name chosen not without reason, because Cydia Pomonella is the name of apple worm that is so common and familiar to anyone who loves this healthy fruit.

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When you buy iPhone 4 on eBay, first of all you should pay attention on from what carrier is locked smartphone.

Until recently, you could buy iPhone 4 AT&T, and then unlock smartphone for $3 in special services. However, after the release iPhone 5s AT&T the price of unlock became more expensive.

Why unlock iPhone 4 AT&T has become more expensive? The exact answer does not exist. Some people say that it is related to the difficult economic situation in the United States, others think that the carrier agreed with the services for unlocking. In my opinion the most logical version is that many users have begun to buy locked iPhone 4, then unlock them just a couple of dollars and sell on Ebay. Therefore, AT&T decided to complicate the procedure of unlock.

However, let us return to our topic. From what carrier you need to buy iPhone 4, so it works in most countries of the world?

As the first models of iPhone 2G, 3G и 3GS are not so popular, we decided to consider iPhone 4.

From what carrier to buy iPhone 4 on eBay?

As I said before, it is not profitable to buy iPhone 4 AT&T on eBay for $170 and to pay as much for it to unlock. Therefore, we consider other options. Apple iPhone 4 Verizon is also not suitable because there is no slot for a SIM card. Thus, we do not need to buy any locked iPhone.

You will need to pay a lot of money to unlock iPhone 4 by IMEI. Methods like gevey, rsim, turbosim and others do not work with iPhone 4.

Do not buy: iPhone 4 verizon

Think before you buy: iPhone 4 AT&T

Buy: iPhone 4 factory unlock or neverlocked

Thus, the only good option is to buy unlock iPhone 4 on eBay.

You can also read our article How to buy refurbished phones unlocked on eBay.

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Apple iPhone 6 became the best-selling smartphone. Users like the smartphone of its size, the amount of memory, colors and other.

We should note that iPhone 6 Plus is also popular, even despite the fact that Jobs says that the big smartphone uncomfortable and useless. The company took a chance and got success.

However, the price of the smartphone is quite high, so buyers started looking for where to buy cheap iPhone 6.

As you know, the price of iPhone 6 in the US are the cheapest. The basic version of the iPhone 6 with 16 GB of memory costs $ 199, the price of the model with 64 GB is $ 299, and the maximum version to 128 GB is estimated at $ 399. iPhone 6 Plus is even more expensive, starting at $ 299 for 16 GB version.

When someone finds such a low price, he quickly went to the US to buy a smartphone from US retailers.

However, not all so simple. Attractive price tags «official price» is a clever marketing trick.

In fact, each iPhone 6 tied up a contract with a particular mobile operators such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

The problem is:

Everyone who buys a smartphone in the US operator, signed a two-year contract under which he is obliged to use only the services of the operator. It sounds good, if you live in the United States. However, if you leave the country, your phone will be locked (at least the next two years).

The second point that you should note that when using smartphones on the contract you’re really overpaying.

Therefore, if you ask local residents to buy your phone – most likely they will refuse.

So you can buy the iPhone 6 in the US stores only if you plan to stay there for the next couple of years.

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Sprint announced a new plan for those who do not use a lot of data per month.

The plan called “Starter Unlimited Data” offers unlimited data, voice calls and text messages for $20 a month. After the customer uses a 1 GB of data, the speed is reduced to 2G.

It should be recalled that $20 a month data is added to US $20 a month for access to Sprint’s network means that the monthly cost for the wireless client plan would be US $40.

New Sprint plan “Starter Unlimited Data” is the cheapest among the four major US phone operators. In addition, differences with plans Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in some respects can be significant.

For example, the main competitor of Sprint – T-Mobile – asks $50 a month for 1GB of high-speed data (reduced to 2G later) with voice calls, text messages and network access. But unlimited data does not provide access to some streaming music.

Meanwhile, AT&T charges $15 per 1GB, but costumer can buy only 2GB. So, for $30 the user receives unlimited AT&T with 2GB of high-speed data, voice and text messages. In addition to this amount, the client AT&T has to pay US $25 a month to access the network that carries the monthly price to US $55. The AT&T customer could pay US $45 a month, but only get 300MB of data.

The second largest US operator AT&T charges US $20 for each 300MB if you had 300MB plan and charges US $15 per 1GB in the other plans.

The largest operator in the country, Verizon, sells each gigabyte of data per US $30 and US $20 further charges by the telephone line. Then the price is similar to T-Mobile, but do not get streaming music. In addition, Verizon charges $10 a month per 1GB that you use on your fee.

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This summer the refurbished iPhone 5s became very popular in the market. For many years Apple and US carriers sell refurbished smartphones.  We decided to find out what is different between refurbished iPhone 5s verizon and the new iPhone 5s.

Refurbished iphone 5s verizon is a previously used smartphones around the world that are factory recovery process, replacement of the case and screen, and only then re-enter the market.

For example, the phone could be exchanged on the trade-in program in the stores Apple Store. Also, the smartphone runs recovery stage when the buyer returned the device because of a manufacturing defect – for example, a broken speaker.

refurbished iPhone 5s verizon is on the left

The company exchange defective smartphone to a new one, while the gadget with defect is transferred to the Apple’s factory, where the defect is eliminated. At the factory is changing the screen and casing of smartphone. After that it is packed in a box, complete with a new charger and headphones. This is a fully functional unit with complete set of documentation.

Refurbished iPhone 5s verizon have a 1 year factory warranty.

Why buy refurbished iPhone 5s verizon?

If you want to try iOS, at the same time you do not want to spend money on a new smartphone. In addition, refurbished iPhone 5s has a guarantee from the company Apple, while using smartphones cannot offer such an opportunity.

Refurbished iPhone 5s verizon is powerful even for standards of 2015 year. Smartphone has a good camera and excellent screen. The only one disadvantage is a diagonal of the screen. According to current standards, 4 inches is not enough.

What are the differences between refurbished iPhone 5s verizon and new iPhone?

The only difference is the packaging and labeling on it. We compared new iPhone 5s and refurbished iPhone 5s. Recovered smartphones are marked RFB (Refurbished). All photos below refurbished iPhone 5s verizon is on the left:

refurbished iPhone 5s verizon is on the left

And how does refurbished iPhone 5s verizon work? Updates, do not slow down?

They work as well as new ones. Refurbished iPhone 5s verizon have the same specifications and the software. As an experiment, we went a week with a refurbished iPhone 5s, in parallel using the ordinary.

Both smartphones received an upgrade to iOS 9.0.1 (and later 9.0.2). No bugs, lockups, reboots. The battery life was about the same. In the setting of the smartphone you will not see any mention of the fact that the iPhone is refurbished. Everything, as in the usual iPhone 5s.

According on sales, the phrase “refurbished iPhone 5s verizon” does not frighten buyers. Meanwhile, we are waiting for refurbished iPhone 6S.

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