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What does UNLOCK mean?
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Posted by: sdog014

I am looking to buy a phone from someone and they said the phone is unlocked but what does that mean?

Posted by: cjmedina

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it means it not stuck to one cellphone company ie cingular\tmobile

Posted by: sdog014

ok i have a cingular contract right now with a v551 but i am going to buy a "unlocked" razor will i be able to put it on my contract in place of my v551?

Posted by: todd_jg2000

Yes. You don't even have to do anything contractually. You just open up the v551, take out the SIM card and put it into the RAZR.

Posted by: Direwolf14

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Originally Posted by sdog014

ok i have a cingular contract right now with a v551 but i am going to buy a "unlocked" razor will i be able to put it on my contract in place of my v551?

You don't have to do anything with your contract. Just pop the sim card out of your v551 and put it in the unlocked RAZR and you'll be good to go. Being "unlocked" means that the RAZR will accept a sim card from ANY provider, not just one particular provider. I.e. if the RAZR was locked to T-Mobile, then it would only accept T-Mobile sims and you couldn't use it, but since it's unlocked, you're ok.

Posted by: DaleJr#8

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Originally Posted by Direwolf14

Being "unlocked" means that the RAZR will accept a sim card from ANY provider, not just one particular provider.

true, but you might wanna insert the three letters "GSM" in between the "ANY" and "provider" words in your statement above. I can see someone going out and trying to stick their Nextell SIM card in a Razr and expecting the phone to work.

Posted by: .7

Please search the forum or google and you will find out what it means.

In short, it means the phone is not "locked" to any provider so you can use any SIM from any provider in the phone and it will work.