The normal iPhone customer takes his iPhone home from an Apple or ATT
store, fires up the current version of iTunes and connects the phone.
It takes you step-by-step in the activation process. You are then
stuck with a 2-year agreement with ATT.
There currently are said to be 3 different ways to hack an iPhone to
"unlock" it. Only one is software only, and that was supposed to be
revealed this week, until ATT attorneys called the person involved at
2:30AM on the weekend and put an a cease & desist order. Follow along
here: http://blog.iphoneunlocking.com/
The iPhone requires ATT's services for Visual Voicemail to work.
There are unlocked iPhones being used on T-Mobile and Rogers
networks. A simple google search will reveal many stories of unlocked
iPhones.
is it really worth all the trouble?
Mike
On Aug 26, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Riyas wrote:
> Any body know about Nokia 6680
>; and standard price list
>; ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Jalkut
> To: maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphone
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> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:52 PM
> Subject: [maccellphone] Re: Another iPhone question
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> Question: Is this mysterious iPhone "activation"; any different
> than activating and other smart phone? Does it need to be done
>; through iTunes? Once a line is activated for iPhone, can the
> SIMs be mixed and matched with other smart phones? Can an
> unlocked iPhone actually be used on Tmobile or another
> carrier or is there a proprietary hack imposed by Apple that
>; must first be circumvented?
>
> Unless there is something mysterious about the activation you
> should be able to do it. The agent with whom you work with
>; may be too stuck in protocol to believe you that it can be done.
> My experience is that the store agents only know how to sell
>; you yet another phone. And the phone agents are often naive
> of the possibilities and you have to insist before they'll finally
> set it up the way you want it. And once they do get it right, they
>; will probably ask you to tell them what it should cost. They
>; apparently have room to bargain. And the plethora of data
>; plans is so confusing that even they don't know what it should
> cost. Some plans are priced lower for new customers than for
> existing customers. But if you keep insisting you don't want
>; it at all unless you get the price you saw on the web site, they
>; will eventually give it to you. Once they insert the price into
>; your account, that is where it will stay, just like if you signed
> up for a phone line during a sales event.
>
> --- In maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphoneyahoogroups.com, "H.B. Elkins" <hbelkins...>
> wrote:
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>> I already have Cingular's FamilyTalk plan with three lines activated.
>> On one of the lines (mine) I have the old MEdiaNet Unlimited plan.
>>
>> I've been poking around on Apple's Web site and see that existing
>> customers can add an iPhone data plan for $20.
>;>
>;> Is there anything that would stop me from going to the Wal-Mart
>> connection center and adding a new line to my Family Talk plan for
>> $14.99/month for phone service, then buying an iPhone and converting
>> that number to the iPhone and only paying the $20/month for the
>> iPhone data plan?
>>
>> Looks to me like I could get iPhone service on one of my lines for
>> $34.99/month this way instead of the $59.99/month if I just get an
>> iPhone independently.
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