PoLiX Posted October 23, 2007 Report Posted October 23, 2007 Apple has sold more than a million iPhones, but more than a sixth of them may never get hooked up to AT&T, the gadget's exclusive U.S. cell phone service provider. About 250,000 of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones that Apple has sold thus far have gone to customers that don't have any intention of signing up for AT&T's service, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said Monday on a conference call with analysts and investors. That's a problem not only for AT&T, which doesn't get any monthly service fees from those customers, but for Apple, with which AT&T shares a portion of iPhone service revenue. Since Apple launched the iPhone in June, hackers have published several strategies on the Internet that allow iPhone users to "unlock" their device from AT&T and link it up with alternate cell phone networks, such as T-Mobile's.http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7258456 So those who wanted one, can still get it and not have to go through AT&T. Me, I'm fine with my old nokia and AT&T for now...
rootbear75 Posted October 23, 2007 Report Posted October 23, 2007 iphone sucks... so why would i want it?
ThunderJam Posted October 23, 2007 Report Posted October 23, 2007 The place where I intern is working on a ton of voice over ip technology for pda's and phones like the iphone. They think if they get voice over ip working well through phone's wifi access, that you will be able to basically pay nothing on your phone bill, since you could do your talking over the wifi lol. Office of high performance computing and informatice at the national library of medicine.
Drake7707 Posted October 25, 2007 Report Posted October 25, 2007 luckily the iphone can't be sold with an exclusive partnership in europe (and certainly not in belgium). Tying is strictly forbidden here
Dav Posted October 25, 2007 Report Posted October 25, 2007 they are in the UK one of the networks has managed to get a deal.
ThunderJam Posted October 25, 2007 Report Posted October 25, 2007 Btw, i heard that when they sync their phones on their computer or something, apple can detect that its unlocked and will be or is already disabling their phones or something.
Drake7707 Posted October 28, 2007 Report Posted October 28, 2007 they bricked some of the unlocked iphones because the hack was relying on something that was changed in the patch, don't know whether it was intentional or not
Russky Posted October 28, 2007 Report Posted October 28, 2007 !@#$%^&* they look sexy i kinda want one but im so poor
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