The iPhone: Virtual Texting And Unlocking
YOU love texting. And you want an iPhone:
Moreover, without tactile feedback, it almost certainly wouldn’t ever become possible to type without looking, which I do all the time on my current phone. If you’re accustomed to sending short text messages and writing brief e-mails from your phone while not doing anything else that you need to look at, this is not a big problem. If you’re accustomed to composing and publishing a dozen 256-character blog posts on your phone during the course of a football game you’re attending, it’s a somewhat more serious concern.
And if you’ve acquired one and want to unlock it:
There are rumours that in India some grey market dealers claim to be able to unlock an iPhone for about $25. That does leave you with the problem of precisely how to get your iPhone to and from India, of course.
The iPhone - something for people for whom life without a monitor is no life at all…
Posted: 30th, June 2007 | In: Twitterings Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 7th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Hey parmeet just to clarify, you said you will coming here in the USA for school in august yet YOURE BULLSHITING US that you bought an iphone, dumb ass…they wont be selling it in asia until MAy 2008???!! since its only july 07 here and you wont be coming here until august 07 YOU DONT HAVE AN IPHONE>>> U WISH U HAVE AN IPHONE!!!! POOR GUY NO IPHONE>>>>STUPID LIAR
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:22 am
Hey guys, i am still confused and dicy about whats gonna happen. My sis is about to be in india next week, she is coming from US. i need to tell her to get Iphone. what i am waiting for is the right news for the iphone.Someone please tell me can i get it unlocked here in India and use all the features. If yes is the answer can you tell me where i can go i stay in Bangalore and my Hometown is Delhi. If you know any contacts in these places please do let me know so i can contact them and get the information and then will tell my sis to get it for me.Please guys help me out.
Before i end i would request people like Parmeet not to give incorrect information on such blogs, if you donot have enogh facts to back them up.
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
parmeet get your facts right buddy, there is a sim slot i just played with it, and the whole point of having a gsm technology, is that they will release it all over the world, and since locking is not a popular concept anywhere but the US and Canada those phones will most likely be unlocked.
Now parmeet i am from bombay i live in the states i own and iphone, in india and i dont know which part you are form but i dont believe you are very aware of things, you buy a phone in a nokia store or any store its always unlocked, you dont have to buy it from a carrier or a wireless provider like airtel etc.
please get your facts right before giving off information.
cheers
fms
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:34 am
Dear Parmeet Shah,
I bought an iPhone as well. However, before you insult others, read the manual of the iPhone. There is a SIM card inside the phone. The slot is right next to the power button. Simply insert a paper clip in the small hole on top (more force is required than thought) and the SIM slot pops out.
Ela.
July 1st, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Hahaha, unlock an iphone? That is a joke, right? Because it its not, its the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Let me just explain to you what ‘unlocking’ is. Some phones in India ship with a carrier that is locked by a particular service provider. This is when the service provider itself comes up with a deal where you get the handset free when you buy a plan. For example, if you buy 2500 prepaid minutes, you get a handset free. But the condition is, you gotta continue with THAT service provider as long as you use that handset. But some smart Indians came with a workaround. They got a phone by such a deal, but when they finished 2500 minutes, it got to expensive to continue the same deal. So they used some secret unlock codes (which are provided by the company, by the way) and unlocked their phone. After this, they could replace the sim card inside the phone with the sim card of another carrier and use the other service.
Now we get to the iphone. The iphone, does not HAVE a sim card. This news is probably coming from ignorant Indian technicians in the cell phone market, and not to mention an ignorant editor, who don’t know that the iphone does not HAVE ANY sim card!
Secondly, this is Apple we are talking about. Why would they keep an unlock code on their phone so that the phone can be misused, against their partners? The unlocking can happen ONLY if the cell phone maker includes such a code in the Operating System. But this is irrelevant because there is NO sim card.
The ONLY way to to use the iphone out of USA is to get a roaming scheme. But this way you’ll end up paying more than the iphones worth in the first month’s bill so I don’t know how smart that is.
By the way, I am from India and I just bought the iphone, because I will be moving to USA for studies in August. Unlike some people, I KNOW that the iphone won’t work as a phone for me when I’m in India.
Parmeet Shah,
Yale University.