Get a new non carrier locked iPhone?

Well I canceled my sprint contract and I'm left with a carrier locked iPhone for sprint, well since I bought apple care + I have insurance on phone. My iPhone 4s has battery issues and if I went to apple and they gave me a new iPhone would that new one be carrier free meaning I could take it to AT&T with me? I think that would be the case right?

Well all the iPhones are the same when new when you activate it to a carrier, the carrier then locks it to its company, so if it's unactivated and they give me unactivated new phone then it's not locked to anything, this should work because I had learned that all the iPhone 4s have same internals because apple designed to work both ways.?

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