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06-04-2008, 11:21 PM
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#1 | | Member
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| iPhone
I was wondering if I were to purchase an iphone...can I use it under a T-Mobile service? | 
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06-04-2008, 11:36 PM
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#2 | | Member
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| nope, it's proprietary, only att | |
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06-05-2008, 06:31 AM
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| You can do what's called jailbreaking, but you assume the risk of bricking your iPhone. Certain applications (e.x. Visual voicemail) may not work properly on the T-Mobile network. Updates may break your iPhone, although it looks like Apple is taking somewhat benign neglect for now (they've overwritten hacked firmware with new Apple locked firmware via iTunes, but haven't broken beyond user repair or banned any phones from iTunes/the iTunes store).
This may change. Apple will be selling applications soon, and they want to control the distribution... | |
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06-05-2008, 10:53 AM
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| In a few days they're going to announce something new with Iphones, so wait and see if they let out one on all (or more) carriers. | 
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06-05-2008, 11:16 AM
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| There might be a new iPhone announced, but not a break of exclusivity. AT&T has that until 2012.
That means that people will probably jailbreak the phones like the old ones (so you'll be able to hack it to work on T-Mobile/some other local GSM carriers), but not CDMA like Verizon or Sprint anytime soon... | |
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06-07-2008, 03:55 PM
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| I'm waiting for the Android phones to be released. They're going to be so much better than the iPhone, since you'll have competing hardware manufacturers and an open source OS. | |
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06-07-2008, 05:40 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: P-Town, where the ballas Ball
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| just unlock it. Everyone does it..you lose your warranty but whatever... | |
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06-08-2008, 11:49 PM
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| how do you unlock it? | |
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06-09-2008, 01:43 AM
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| Quote: |
just unlock it. Everyone does it..you lose your warranty but whatever...
| Yeah... you risk losing out on the hundreds of dollars that you invested, plus the cost of buying a new phone, and you guarantee losing out our your money whenever Apple decides to override the hacks, but whatever...
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06-09-2008, 04:28 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| Except
1) Everyone does it.
2) Nobody ever gets screwed unless you're a complete retard. You could always sell your unlocked phone for as much as you bought it. | |
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06-09-2008, 12:00 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
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| Except that factory defects do happen, so if you happen to get that one messed up phone, there's no crying to Apple. And Apple hasn't yet overridden the hacks so no one has been systematically screwed yet. But once they do (you can't honestly believe they'll sit by the sidelines forever), I doubt a broken iPhone would sell for 10% of its original price.
Oh, and have you ever heard of the "jumping on the bandwagon" form of propaganda?  | |
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06-09-2008, 04:29 PM
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| Peer pressure! Run away! Just kidding.
It doesn't appear that Apple intends to take any action against modders, but its a risk you take.
New iPhone is 1/2 the price AND 3G AND built in GPS. Pretty good job, Apple. | |
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06-09-2008, 08:56 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,387
| Lol^^^. The iPhone is not much cheaper.
The new data plan is $30 the old one was $20. On average not you will be paying $12 more per month (taking taxes into account). Over a period of 24 months you will be paying $288 more than before the price drop. Its not cheaper and certainly not 1/2 the price. | |
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06-10-2008, 12:52 AM
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| it's half the price because you have to sign with att for 2 years now... | |
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06-10-2008, 05:27 AM
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| @collegehopeful
Well, I won't argue about you about the data plan price. That's one of the hidden costs.
I don't have 3G service nor do I want to buy a phone without insurance (Asurion, AT&T's wireless phone insurance provider, will not insure the iPhone), especially if it has a glass front. My contract is up for renewal in a few days, and I'm not getting an iPhone.
The device cost is an important part..I see a lot of people do $50 rebates on their phone which require them to have $15/mo services for 2 years. Who's the real sucker?
@diesel
True, you can't jailbreak the phones anymore... | |
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