What phone is worth the most money?

[akugami]

The iPad shares the same baseband chip as the 3G and the 3GS. You can't put the iPad baseband on the iPhone 4.

Hrm...seems you're right. I don't have an iPad 3 and to be honest, I've never attempted to jailbreak or unlock my iPhone 4 as I've never felt the need. For some reason I always thought it was the iPhone 4 and iPad that shared the same baseband chip.

Either way, expect an unlock available for the alter basebands of the iPhone 4 when iOS 4.3 is released.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Hrm...seems you're right. I don't have an iPad 3 and to be honest, I've never attempted to jailbreak or unlock my iPhone 4 as I've never felt the need. For some reason I always thought it was the iPhone 4 and iPad that shared the same baseband chip.

Either way, expect an unlock available for the alter basebands of the iPhone 4 when iOS 4.3 is released.

Yeah. I would assume that they will have a jailbreak and unlock ready for iOS 4.3. I think there are rumors that there is already a 4.3 untethered jailbreak that works with the 4.3 betas.

 

[kaerflog]

Hrm...seems you're right. I don't have an iPad 3 and to be honest, I've never attempted to jailbreak or unlock my iPhone 4 as I've never felt the need. For some reason I always thought it was the iPhone 4 and iPad that shared the same baseband chip.

Either way, expect an unlock available for the alter basebands of the iPhone 4 when iOS 4.3 is released.

Don't hold your breath.
Not saying that it won't happen eventually but they were saying this for the 4.2 and its been over 3 months.
When they did release the unlock for 4.2, it was only for 3G and 3GS and it require an iPad baseband.

IP4 still on 01.59.00 are so damm hard to find these days.
Hehe, I recently found a guy that had his IP4 on 4.1 and he told me it was still on 01.59.00.
I thought he was BSing me for the longest time because he was selling it for less than $500.
People that know how to update the version while preserving the baseband usually know how valuable these are and sells them for a premium.

 

[akugami]

My two iPhones are still on baseband 1.59.00.

 

[pm]

First, I tend to agree with everyone else here. A 16GB iPhone 4 has the best resale value - particularly unopened, new in box. You don't get the full $100 worth of the 32GB version, so 16GB is the better of the two.

Second, I agree with the rumor that iOS 4.3 will have an unlock - the devteam guys have been showing off unlocked handsets on 4.2.1... they can unlock them. There's one thing when there are rumors of an unlock, and there's another when they have screenshots. Not sure why they feel the need to wait since once you unlock the baseband, if you are careful you can keep the unlock through updates... maybe it's a PR thing.

I believe the iPhone "5" will be sold unlocked on both T-Mobile and AT&T. Just my wild guess but I believe it to be true.

 

[akugami]

Second, I agree with the rumor that iOS 4.3 will have an unlock - the devteam guys have been showing off unlocked handsets on 4.2.1... they can unlock them. There's one thing when there are rumors of an unlock, and there's another when they have screenshots. Not sure why they feel the need to wait since once you unlock the baseband, if you are careful you can keep the unlock through updates... maybe it's a PR thing.

It's actually not a bad reason to wait before releasing the unlock. From what I understand, the unlock exploit was made during 4.2 but wasn't ready for release. And when they did get it into a fairly good stable state on 4.2, 4.3 is right around the corner. If iOS 4.3 was 6 months away they'd release the unlock for iOS 4.2 right now. But since it's probably less than a month away (4.3 is currently in beta) they don't want Apple closing the hole that's allowing iOS 4.2 to be unlocked. This will preserve the exploit for 4.3.

 

[pm]

It's actually not a bad reason to wait before releasing the unlock. From what I understand, the unlock exploit was made during 4.2 but wasn't ready for release. And when they did get it into a fairly good stable state on 4.2, 4.3 is right around the corner. If iOS 4.3 was 6 months away they'd release the unlock for iOS 4.2 right now. But since it's probably less than a month away (4.3 is currently in beta) they don't want Apple closing the hole that's allowing iOS 4.2 to be unlocked. This will preserve the exploit for 4.3.

Right. But baseband unlocks are on the baseband and iOS jailbreaks are on the iOS. The jailbreak in 4.2 is most definitely closed in 4.3. Unlocks are on the baseband. If you are building your own custom ipsw (eg. pwnage tool), then the two are separate. The only reason to wait is if you think there's a new baseband coming and you want the unlock to work on the new baseband.

I just googled "ios 4.3 iphone 4 baseband" and it appears that the new iOS 4.3 has a new baseband (4.10.01). Maybe they are waiting for that...