The terms you need to know before buying a portable iPhone

In the past few years, the portable iPhone market in Vietnam has been extremely developed and attracted the attention of many users because these phones often have much cheaper prices, even 1 / 2 compared to genuine iPhone phones. So, it meets all users, from low-income people to high-income people have the opportunity to own and experience new iPhone models.

iPhone lock, International iPhone, iPhone drift warranty, refurbished, CPO, refurbished, Japanese version lock . These are the terms that sellers often use to talk about portable iPhones. So what do these terms mean? Do you understand anything about them? Our article below will basically define these terms so that users can know and choose to buy their own iPhone with the right needs, affordable, and good machines.

1. What is an international iPhone, iPhone look (network lock)?

These are probably two commonly used terms when it comes to portable iPhones.

By definition, international iPhone means it can be used on any SIM type of any carrier worldwide. This type of device is usually portable via airmail that sellers buy directly from foreign stores. Therefore, the machine usually has a higher selling price than the lock machine.

And iPhone lock (network lock) is an iPhone sold with a contract with the network, the price is usually very preferential, but besides that are the conditions that force the user to buy a computer that forces you to use SIM of the network distributor of this product. However, now with the strong development of technology, iPhone lock has been able to turn into iPhone version by using the unlock code of the network. However, in Vietnam, this "unlocking" method is not popular because in fact the code usually costs quite high from 3 to 5 million for iphone 5 and 5S. If you spend a lot of money buying the code, you can make up for it to choose an international machine to use.

However, in terms of hardware, both versions are the same.

2. What is iPhone product LL, ZP, VN .?

Almost all iPhone in the world have the same factory. However, in each market, Apple has set up its own model. To check which country it came from, you can go to Settings> General settings> About> Model .

Here are some codes so you can know which country your device came from.

1. Code ZA distributed in Singapore
2. ZP code distributed in Hong Kong
3. BA code distributed in the UK
4. KH code distributed in Korea
5. CA code distributed in Canada
6. XA code distributed in Australia
7. LL code distributed in the US
8. JA code distributed in Japan
9. VN code / A distributed in Vietnam
10. EU code distributed in Europe
11. Code F distributed in France
12. Code TU distributes in Turkey
13. TA code distributed in Taiwan (Taiwan)

To distinguish what kind of iPhone iPhone is, you only need to notice the first character and compare it to the following rule table:

1. MxxxYY / A - the letter M is a new commercial item (genuine peace of mind).
2. NxxxYY / A - character N is an Apple item that returns a warranty.
3. FxxxYY / A - F characters are Refurbished or CPO (this is a refurbished apple product).
4. 3xxxYY / A - the first character if Number (3) is displayed at the Store.

Note: All goods with different codes only show different distribution markets, not the place of production of the goods. Because all are international machines, the product quality is the same, there is no difference.

In addition, on the market today products originating from Japan and Korea often cost less than iPhones originating from other countries. The reason is that Japanese and Korean iPhones often cannot turn off the camera sound when shooting. However, if your device has Jaibread installed, it can improve that disadvantage of the device.

3. Japanese iPhone version is not always iPhone "locked"

Many Vietnamese people believe that Japanese-originated iPhones are usually cheap and are network lockers. However, this is not really true, because it does not only sell network locks but they still have international machines here.

However, in order to turn an iPhone locked into an international iPhone, users can pay an additional fee for the network to become an international version. In addition, there are machines in Japan that are sold as international versions for every sim. Thus, when checking iPhone if there is J / A code, it is not sure if this is a network lock.

In contrast, the iPhone LL product does not guarantee that it is an American international machine.

4. iPhone refurbished (refurbished goods), what is iPhone CPO?

The Apple iPhone refurbished concept is understood that these are products returned by users or agents, which are then taken back to Apple's headquarters for refurbishment of the external appearance or a replacement. number of internal components if there is an error. The machine will be tested first and returned to the market with a "refurbished" label, so the price is lower, although the appearance is still new.

When checking on Apple's home page with a serial or IMEI number, the information shows that the product has not been activated and has a 12-month warranty period.

Special identification of Refurbished goods is the box, the refurbished goods will be used in the whole box is white, the front of the product name has the words "Apple Certified Pre-Owned" or "Apple Certified Refurbished".

With items labeled Apple Certified Pre-Owned and Refurbished Certified you can trust to buy and use. However, you should also check before taking, avoid the case of salespeople taking advantage of tea products that are fuzzy, poor quality. Most iPhone Apple Certified Pre-Owned now come from Japan and Singapore. The rate of encountering errors is still more than new ones, most of which are screen problems such as streaking or staining the screen when just peeling the box.

5. iPhone drift warranty, what is iPhone already active?

Under Apple's 1-to-1 warranty policy, the iPhone will have a 12-month warranty, if there are errors in this 12-month period, users can fully return the device in exchange for a new one. Apple will record the machines that generate this error, then repair it and return it to the service center / dealer / distributor to exchange for users. However, somehow, these iPhones are marketed with the name iPhone drift warranty.

Features of iPhone drift warranty are: new, unused and original stamps, but when we check according to IMEI number, we inform the used machine (already active), the warranty period is no longer sufficient 12 months.

In fact, iPhone drift warranty is 100% new, unused, quality standard Apple, cheap price. However, it will have a 12-month warranty period like the new iPhone.

6. Display machine

iPhone displays are the iPhone models displayed at istore stores in countries like Germany, France, USA, UK or Hong Kong. These iPhones are products on display for a period of one to three months and will be replaced by new display iPhones for display, which is called iphone display. There is also a note that the products displayed are already active for customers to test, so their quality is completely normal and confirmed.

Because of the nature of these iPhones are all products used to display for guests to experience, in other words, the quality of the device has been tested many times, if you buy this product can be assured of quality of the machine. On the other hand, the feature of the display is that the machine has been activated by customers to test customers, so when the store does not display it, it will be sold at a price much lower than the market price! You can see that it looks older than the original ones because it has been peeled off and put in a glass case or there is also a display without a cabinet, or the customer has a lot of touch. As for functionality, it is exactly the same as the ones you just bought.

In short, if you buy an item on display like you buy a used machine but the usage level is not much, the lowest is only 99%.

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