RebelSim / Turbo Sim

**LewisSellers** · 30-12-2008, 05:57 PM

Hello all,

Just looking at these items on eBay, the Rebel sim and the Turbo sim are something that you push against your sim card when putting in the iPhone (or other type of phone), and it basically unlocks that particular phone to any network.

Are they legal?

eBay link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REBEL-TURBO-SI...1%7C240%3A1308

Cheers
Lewis

**martin23** · 30-12-2008, 06:09 PM

yeah they are legal, unlocking your phone is not illegal.

**LewisSellers** · 30-12-2008, 06:33 PM

Ok, If I were to buy a boat load of these and get a very good price on them, would anyone be interested in purchasing in bulk?

Kind Regards
Lewis

IphoneBuyer · 30-12-2008, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LewisSellers

Ok, If I were to buy a boat load of these and get a very good price on them, would anyone be interested in purchasing in bulk?

Kind Regards
Lewis

Dear,

I think i would , depends on model ofcorse. And they have to unlock firmware 2.2.

Best Regards
Rijkers C.

**LewisSellers** · 30-12-2008, 06:42 PM

Yeah, I think I'd only purchase the ones that work with Firmware 2.2.

I will have a look into it. They do look quite good and there are many videos showing they work. You can even purchase them with USB programmers now to update them.

Lewis

PT · 30-12-2008, 07:19 PM

More hassle than they're worth, so I've heard, check the thread on them just last week.

**E-ASYCHOICE** · 30-12-2008, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PT

More hassle than they're worth, so I've heard, check the thread on them just last week.

I'd agree with that 110%.

I had one in my iPhone, worked great (for 5mins) then I lost signal. Tried a few things, still no joy so I decided to try taking the sim out and trying again . . . But . . . Heres the problem . . The sim wouldn't come out.

What had happened was the Sim Card and the Rebel Sim had seperated and the Rebel Sim had curled up inside my iPhone so much so that half the Sim Tray snapped when being removed leaving bits of Sim Card, Bits of Rebel Sim and bits of Sim Tray inside my iPhone.

I ended up having to order a new Sim Card & buy a new Sim tray from Apple but the nice people at Rebel Sim did send me a replacement.

Did it go in? . . . Did it heck!!

I was quite suprised the phone worked at all after the whole episode so personally Id strongly avoid the idea, Agreed you will get sales - but the customer issues you will face afterwards may not be worth selling the Sim in the 1st place.

Plus the software unlock is due out within days (depending on baseband) so your potential market will shrink

Hope this helps

Popcorn · 30-12-2008, 10:45 PM

Well... I would Say... if your buying a load of Real real real real big lot of theys i would say a bit of hassle.... when if you brought 100 of theys with a stuff of other things it will be better

**moneymaker88** · 30-12-2008, 11:49 PM

Translation please???

**martin23** · 31-12-2008, 12:03 AM

The dev team are also expected to release the software unlock for the 3g phones on the 1st.