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  • From: Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What's Your Idea for an iPhone Application?
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:41:34 -0400

Keeping an eye out for the watchful eye of Cupertino, I'll run the risk of saying that I ended up sending almost half a dozen phones to folks Down Under. The fist guy I ran into on a mailing list, when I happened to have an 8GB iPhone sitting next to me, sealed in the box. About a month later, he said "a bunch of my friends want them too" and, well, I guess they're pretty happy now :-p

The upside for me was that none of them wanted me to unlock them or do anything else, I just took the sealed box I recieved the phone in and slapped a new shipping label onto it, and they did the rest. By this point, you can "jailbreak" it, and SIM unlock it, with just a couple mouse-clicks.

~ian

On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

Thomas Beckett wrote:
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Greg Brown wrote:
Getting the device to operate on a carrier that works a damn in this area.

Yeah, with all its shortcomings (and the insanely great stuff, too), the
biggest technical flaw in the iPhone is AT&T.


Here in Australia (even further than Charlotte!), I run into people with
iPhones pretty frequently. They are not sold here - people buy them
from eBay or friends in the US, unlock them, and replace the SIM cards
with a local carrier. These folks are not necessarily highly technical
computer geeks either - typically the eBay sellers do the unlocking, or
local independent phone vendors (since the "unlocking" just breaks a
US-based contract, and there's no DMCA here, it's not anything the
authorities care about).

The biggest downside here has been lack of 3G/HSDPA support in the
iPhone, but that is expected to change with the next major "release"
(which possibly will correspond with the launch in Australia). Apple
may find that it is hard to launch the iPhone locked to a particularly
carrier, too - the Australian consumer commission or whatever it's
called looks pretty dimly on this sort of anticompetitive behavior.

Are people in the US that scared of AT&T and/or the DMCA that they
aren't unlocking the phones to any kind of widespread level?

As for applications, I'd like to see a more native application that
interfaces with my company email, similar to the way my Blackberry does,
or the Windows Mobile devices can do. (Company uses MS Exchange.) Yes,
you can check Outlook Web Access through the browser, but it's a bit
clunky, and from what I've seen, the IMAP access is slow especially
without HSDPA. But I don't have a lot of experience using one.

--Jeremy
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