The seller was only asking $50 for the iPhone 8. I didn’t really want to spend $200 for a phone for him. He’s pretty happy with his little flip phone, except that texting is slow. We only needed it so he can reach parents and maybe a friend or two. I’ll just keep looking around to find an unlocked option.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: locked phone question Buy him a phone which was not released 8 years ago and is long past its best before date. Even if you get it unlocked, you may end up with a phone where the first thing you have to do is spend money for a new battery and finally, the original version of iOS which was on the iPhone 8 was iOS 11 and the last version of iOS which can run on an iPhone 8 is iOS 16. This means more and more apps may not be able to run on an iPhone 8 because support for iOS 16 is being dropped. If you don’t mind saying, but what is the asking price for this iPhone 8? I sure hope it’s not more than $40 or $50 and as I said, even for that you might want to consider something like an iPhone SE 3rd generation which was released in the spring of 2022. Here in Canada you can get refurbished models of that phone for around $250 Canadian from Best Buy, Walmart etc., I would imagine in the US you can get them for well below $200 and if you buy a refurbished phone from Apple, Best Buy, Walmart etc., you can be sure it has a new battery and is otherwise in good shape. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of R Van Lant Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 7:08 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: locked phone question Hi Hoping someone can guide me... My carrier is PureTalk, which runs on the AT&T network. I have the opportunity to buy an old iPhone 8 for my pre-teen son at a nicely low price. I called my carrier with the IMEI number and was told it’s a phone locked by AT&T, so the rep said it wouldn’t work. Does this mean that putting a PureTalk sim card in it just doesn’t’ work? 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