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Guys,

Just a question, is any of the US set useable in Singapore since it's supposedly to be an unlocked set when you purchased off the Apple store with no contract.

Please advise.

Thank you.
 

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Guys,

Just a question, is any of the US set useable in Singapore since it's supposedly to be an unlocked set when you purchased off the Apple store with no contract.

Please advise.

Thank you.

If you are very sure it's an unlocked set, then yes you can use in Singapore
 

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Yes US set can bring to SG to use. even thought you will only ultilize 1 band of LTE.

but the GSM will work fine.
 

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Any idea which country apple store will have cheapest 5s iPhone and can use in sg?
 

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While the US iPhone will work in Singapore, you will not get full LTE band support. You can connect to the local 1800 MHz band, but the US sets will not be able to connect to the 2600 MHz band here.

For LTE Bands support for the various models, refer to:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
 

shawn_sboi

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While the US iPhone will work in Singapore, you will not get full LTE band support. You can connect to the local 1800 MHz band, but the US sets will not be able to connect to the 2600 MHz band here.

For LTE Bands support for the various models, refer to:

Apple - iPhone 5 - View countries with supported LTE networks.

HAha! bro differences only single and dual band. but dual band we can't feel yet..

it's almost the same as a single band.
 

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Hongkong



Our local set have a 2600Mhz which most of our telcos 4G LTE will be on island wide.

There is still the 1800Mhz 4G LTE frequency of course :)

Thank you. Though not thoroughly understanding with the LTE thingy but it seems in layman's term, US set will surf on a slower speed in SIN even though on 4G LTE compared to local set.

So as to speak, sale or resale value would be lower compared to local set too eh.
 

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I did say will still work. Haha. Just not the full monty.

HAHA! yeah i know ^^

Thank you. Though not thoroughly understanding with the LTE thingy but it seems in layman's term, US set will surf on a slower speed in SIN even though on 4G LTE compared to local set.

So as to speak, sale or resale value would be lower compared to local set too eh.

Speed wise same.

It's just the islandcoverage and some part of SG uses dualband..

Like in orchard, congested network. They implement a Dualband 4G LTE so that user can hop onto the less congested 4G LTE bandwidth.

As 1800Mhz is shared with GPRS/3G.
 

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HAHA! yeah i know ^^



Speed wise same.

It's just the islandcoverage and some part of SG uses dualband..

Like in orchard, congested network. They implement a Dualband 4G LTE so that user can hop onto the less congested 4G LTE bandwidth.

As 1800Mhz is shared with GPRS/3G.

Oh, now I get it. Thank you so much. 😊
 

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Will there be warranty for Iphone bought from other country ? Will Apple Singapore honour it ?
 

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Btw guys,

Saw at FB that iPhone 5s 64GB selling at $800
and buy 3 get 1 free.

Does this really a SCAM or real?

Sound good but anyone try getting iPhone 5s from the US or Online ?
 

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Btw guys,

Saw at FB that iPhone 5s 64GB selling at $800
and buy 3 get 1 free.

Does this really a SCAM or real?

Sound good but anyone try getting iPhone 5s from the US or Online ?

I think Channel 8 news just talked about how this lady got scammed by the buy 3 get 1 free iphone 5s .. And her excuse is "I thought Singapore has low crime" ... LOL ... I almost throw my iphone at my tv ...
 

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I think Channel 8 news just talked about how this lady got scammed by the buy 3 get 1 free iphone 5s .. And her excuse is "I thought Singapore has low crime" ... LOL ... I almost throw my iphone at my tv ...

Lol local news? Omg joke.

Sound too good too be true.
 

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Lock set also can unlock easily, no diff actually when people mention the "lockness".
 
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