Although initially the Apple company supported that they do not sell decoded iPhone 4S terminals in the USA, here are all those who purchased an iPhone 4S at full price from Apple stores they found that the device appears as decoded in iTunes. The image above greeted several hundred thousand iPhone 4S owners and you can imagine how happy they were to find out that they can use the device with any mobile phone operator in the world, not just AT&T. Terminals bought from Apple at full price have prices that vary between $649 for the 16 GB version and $849 for the 32 GB version.
Several users have managed to confirm that the terminals are indeed decoded by Apple, but the happiness might last very little. And Sprint sells iPhone 4S terminals decoded in GSM networks, but promises to encode them in a very short time, so the same thing could happen with AT&T terminals. In a few weeks, a carrier bundle update may appear that will block all iPhone 4S terminals bought now and it will be quite complicated to maintain the decoding even if we are only talking about a Carrier Bundle.
In conclusion, it seems that the iPhone 4S terminals sold now at full price by Apple would be decoded but they could be recoded by AT&T because officially the respective terminals should be coded in the network of the American operator.
