So i'm Irish and and i'm going to New york on holiday in the next week. I've been planing on buying an Unlocked Iphone 5 while i'm there for use at home here in Ireland, only to learn that the Official unlocked IPhone 5 has yet to be released in the US
There's a very small chance that it will be released within the next two weeks so that seemingly rules out my chances of buying one. But today a friend had linked me with a site that claims that all IPhone 5's sold on the Verizon network in the US are unlocked phones.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/verizon-iphone-5-unlocked-att_n_1909972.html
On that point i know about apple's international warranty clause that basically annuls the warranty outside of the country which it was bought and i also know my country does not yet have 4G network.
But i was just wondering would the Verizon phone work properly back in Ireland and/or will sites like
http://www.iphonefactoryunlocks.com/
work to unlock the phone for use in Ireland
Added (1). To Scott: thanks very much, but its not a problem getting one in Ireland, in fact the IPhone that are sold here are unlocked, what concerns me move are the price i could save over 200€ by buying one in the Us