[Swordmaker]

Ok, Dino, I did some research for you. Apple is not even offering the unlocked iPhone 6 on the online store right now. You literally cannot buy it as an "unlocked" iPhone per USA Today. . . but there IS an awkward, totally unsatisfactory, work around that will get you an unlocked iPhone 6.

You must buy it designating T-Mobile as your carrier. They require 40 days of service, again per USA Today, at which time you may remove their SIM card, they will unlock the phone, and you can then put in whichever carrier's SIM card you like. . . So long as the radio is compatible with that carriers assigned bands. Most likely it will as the iPhone 6 is compatible with 27 systems and bandwidths. But, Dino, there is no way, since the release of the iPhone 6 to walkout with an unlocked one. You can only buy an unlocked iPhone 5s or 4s directly from Apple at this time.

This means your friend did not buy a pair of iPhone 6es to take back to Jeddah, as I told you in the first place.

[dinodino]

Bullsh1t. Read the article you posted: "As Apple users have reported after taking these no-contract phones home, they work with such other carriers as AT&T; just pop out the T-Mobile SIM and use whichever one you want. Apple confirmed that this model comes unlocked but didn't explain the labeling mismatch."

[MediaMole]

The one workaround is a contract Verizon phone, which has an unlocked sim slot. Pay the ETF and you technically have an unlocked GSM phone.