Once you unlock your phone you can insert almost any SIM card you want (the iPhone3 and 4 series take a different size SIM so be careful), foreign or domestic, prepaid or not.

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For anyone who is interested in seeing what this metallic glass is like see if you can get hold of the special little tool that Apple hands out with the iPhone3 for removing the SIM card.

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