Mobile Phone Help Required Please

[The Laughing Bluebird]

I have recently changed mobiles, and was thinking of putting my old one on eBay as it's still in pretty decent condition. It's a Nokia 7250i, and I was on a contract with Orange. That contract was cancelled (by me) and it ran out in the middle of August.

Having just looked at the current auctions for these phones on eBay, I see that they are normally described as either locked or unlocked. So what does that mean exactly? And what would I have to do to my old phone before selling it?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[CHAPPERS]

It means that currently it will only work on the Orange network. I'm not sure how they do this but some shops can unlock them, normally costs about a tenner I believe. I think some internet sites now do it somehow.

Easy 10 got a pikey at Ford market to do it, can't believe I remember that but there you go.

 

[rospants]

un locked means it will take a sim card from any network, locked means it will only work on one network

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Thanks both. The advice I've just had from a mate who has sold several phones on eBay recently is to sell it locked anyway - just make sure to state in the description what network it is locked to.