I recently bought a used iPhone 2G from an online store. It had a cracked LCD so got it at a very good price. The most interesting part of this purchase was that after i restored the firmware to 3.1.3, the surprise was that it got unlocked automatically. I didn’t use any of the popularly used options for unlocking this phone. 🙂

The only thing i don’t know is in which country was iPhone 2G launched as factory unlocked? Or how come i am so lucky that i have an unlocked one.

Even today, an iPhone 2G is far better than any other cheaper Android phones. If someone wants to buy an Android phone in the budget of 6-7k, i think an iPhone is always a better option. Android really sucks on lower end handsets which don’t provide quality hardware to run it as it’s full potential.