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Phones are frequently snatched out of people's hands in London. They are sold in countries that don't blacklist them, mainly in Africa.
by mmahemoff 4y ago
Phones are frequently snatched out of people's hands in London. They are sold in countries that don't blacklist them, mainly in Africa.
- dmix 4y agoI'm pretty sure Google/Apple OS boot locks are not simply geo-locked by mobile service vendors, so even in Africa it would be pretty limited in value for any modern phone. This happens when you start up the phone and it requires auth via the existing password and/or login to a Google/Apple account to deauth it from the primary account. Even after attempting to reinstall an ASOP boot OS on Android this will happen. That wasn't always the case though and thieves may not realize that. But otherwise for some reason I didn't consider selling it for parts to one of those tiny cellphone chop-shops. I assumed since it was a valuable iPhone it was ultimately mostly useless to them as a non-operational phone, but I guess $20-100 for parts is more than enough.