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A few pages back, someone had mentioned that unlocked phones would not be sold at the Apples Retail Stores. The Apple website's statements are a bit ambiguous as well saying that unlocked iPhones can be purchased online and new contracts can be purchased at the retail stores. However, saying what can be bought (either online or at the stores) is not the same as explicitly saying that unlocked phones cannot be bought at the retail outlet.
Anyways, I've called the Pacific Centre and Richmond Centre stores and employees there have explicitly stated that Apple has gone the way of the US and are only selling locked phones at the retail stores. The employees did state that you can still buy a phone at full price then have your wireless provide unlock it for you. I smell a cash-grab agreement between Apple and the wireless providers.
Obviously, phones purchased from the online store are factory unlocked.
I just wanted to provide this info to you guys in case anyone was curious. What do you guys think this news will do to the line-ups on release date?
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