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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Go read the article. The 6 guys who demoed it for Engadget wrote a software hack. It takes less than 5 minute to do it.
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Guess this is another article, the one I read by the boy mentioned in my previous post stated that there was a little soldering to do, et al. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!
As to being locked to a specific network... I think it totally sucks. I know many times while I was quaintly happy with my current provider, they had hardly a good selection of decent mobile phones that met my requirements. Should I have to suck it up and take a crappy plan with another network simply because I want to use the technology of one of the phones that meets my needs? I don't think so. The phone company is selling their service, not the devices, so the phones should be available in their various forms; i.e., CDMA, GPRS, GMS, etc., on various networks, why bother with limiting themselves to one vendor? Apple should have made a deal with all the vendors to get the greater mass appeal. While I can understand that they probably signed some lucrative deal with whomever provides their services, they pissed a lot of people off who may have paid what they were asking for the phones but won't now due to not wanting to switch providers.
Here's the second issue, I had a SmartPhone that I used religiously before leaving the states. Turns out, if the SIM card gets updated to indicate that it's no longer in service the phone won't friggin work any more. This would have really sucked, since I used the PDA for more than simply a phone, fortunately I was able to use the GoPhone cards in it, so it was still usable for what I needed; i.e., GPS & PDA functions. What's going to happen to the iPhone when the contract is up? Will you not be able to use it as a PIM anymore, or what about as a PMP?
Edit: Just checked out the video on Engadget, too cool! I've been avoiding checking out any real info on the iPhone since it's not available here. Sure would be nice if I could get one of those babies to work over here. I can't believe how slim it looked, and the touch-screen... (drool). These things will be free by the time I move back to the states, hopefully we'll be seeing 'em here in the next 6 months or so (I won't hold my breath).