Will the Verizon Pixel work on other carriers?

[monofurioso]

I know it's bootloader locked, but I can get a deal w/ a family upgrade on Verizon. I would want to actually use the phone on AT&T. Think it'll be carrier locked to Verizon?

 

[Rukbat]

It'll probably be SIM-locked if it's subsidized (meaning unless you pay the full retail price up front), so it won't accept an AT&T SIM card. It DOES have the 4G radio AT&T requires, but without the SIM card, that does you no good.

 

[Unobtanium]

I know it's bootloader locked, but I can get a deal w/ a family upgrade on Verizon. I would want to actually use the phone on AT&T. Think it'll be carrier locked to Verizon?

This CNET article says the Verizon units are SIM unlocked: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-pixel-xl-verizon-daydream-view/

 

[monofurioso]

Thanks, that's promising. Seems unlikely the author would slip that in if they hadn't actually heard it directly from a Verizon or Google source.

 

[dpham00]

It'll probably be SIM-locked if it's subsidized (meaning unless you pay the full retail price up front), so it won't accept an AT&T SIM card. It DOES have the 4G radio AT&T requires, but without the SIM card, that does you no good.

Verizon sells it factory sim unlocked,even when subsidized. I believe that you do need to activate it on Verizon first though

 

[Almeuit]

It'll probably be SIM-locked if it's subsidized (meaning unless you pay the full retail price up front), so it won't accept an AT&T SIM card. It DOES have the 4G radio AT&T requires, but without the SIM card, that does you no good.

Verizon doesn't do this. They had an agreement for some spectrum so all their 4g LTE phones are unlocked out of the gate.