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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

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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