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iPhone fully unlocked and working on T-Mobile

/dev/toaster said:
My favorite part is being able to rewind a few seconds. For example, people love to leave me a 3 minute voicemail and say their number at the end. If they say it too quick, I would have to go back and listen to the entire thing again.
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Forget the usual wimp "visual voicemail".

You sound like a prime candidate for those third party mailbox services where they not only give you the audio messages in any order, but also do a speech-to-text conversion and send that to you. I hear it's great for people who're constantly having to write down directions and numbers.

Not to mention that you'd be able to "read" your voicemail and not disturb the meeting.

Google around. Most companies have try-out periods.

http://www.callwave.com/landing/corp_home_v2e.asp
 
I wonder if the US and UK iPhones will be 100% identical, hardware-wise, meaning that if I can download the UK restore image (likely, as you can currently download the US restore image), I can wipe my hacked US iPhone and then start right from the beginning, and activate it on it's UK network, when it's released.

What does anyone think?
 
MarkW19 said:
I'll answer my own question (just found out): there is some AT&T/US-specific hardware in there, so: no.
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That's all kind of speculative... assuming the iPhone launches with EDGE in the UK (and some 3G iPhone doesn't magically appear in the meantime), what's the US specific hardware? Isn't the iPhone quad-band GSM?
 
mkrishnan said:
That's all kind of speculative... assuming the iPhone launches with EDGE in the UK (and some 3G iPhone doesn't magically appear in the meantime), what's the US specific hardware? Isn't the iPhone quad-band GSM?
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Yes, the iPhone is quad-band GSM, and it'll launch in the UK with EDGE, or just GPRS. I doubt we'll see 3G.

There's a guy currently providing a step-by-step tutorial for hardware-unlocking the iPhone, I've just been in the IRC channel that he's using. He's probably the only person to know the iPhone's hardware inside-out (apart from Apple, of course), and he said there is some AT&T/US-specific hardware in there, that will make it impossible to buy a US iPhone, restore it with the UK restore image, and then end up with a "UK" iPhone.

I wish that wasn't true, as I was just about to buy an 8GB off eBay, use it "hacked" (either iPod/WiFi only, or SIM-unlocked if a software unlock is released) until the UK launch, then restore to a full UK iPhone.
 
MarkW19 said:
Yes, the iPhone is quad-band GSM, and it'll launch in the UK with EDGE, or just GPRS. I doubt we'll see 3G.

There's a guy currently providing a step-by-step tutorial for hardware-unlocking the iPhone, I've just been in the IRC channel that he's using. He's probably the only person to know the iPhone's hardware inside-out (apart from Apple, of course), and he said there is some AT&T/US-specific hardware in there, that will make it impossible to buy a US iPhone, restore it with the UK restore image, and then end up with a "UK" iPhone.

I wish that wasn't true, as I was just about to buy an 8GB off eBay, use it "hacked" (either iPod/WiFi only, or SIM-unlocked if a software unlock is released) until the UK launch, then restore to a full UK iPhone.
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Yes GEOHOT is currently doing the step by step, looks like we won't have to wait a week to see his hardware method!
 
Personally, if I was going to do this (read: I'm not. I don't need to.), I would most certainly wait/pay for a software SIM unlock instead of cracking my shiny iPhone open and taking a soldering iron to it.
 
MarkW19 said:
...he said there is some AT&T/US-specific hardware in there, that will make it impossible to buy a US iPhone, restore it with the UK restore image, and then end up with a "UK" iPhone.
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That's really interesting. I wonder what it is / does. The iPhone is certainly a mystery wrapped in enigma. :D
 
kdarling said:
EDGE. With capitals. It's an acronym :)

Someone mentioned Visual Voicemail. There are third party solutions for that.

Interestingly, my home MCI phone has had something just like it for many years on the web. You can login from anywhere and listen to your voice mail in any order.
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Verizon phone you mean? :(

Well they may not have got around to moving everyone over yet. Had to do all the switches first.
 
Couldn't future software updates just block the unlock feature? Seems risky to me. You would have to live with the current bugs and applications.
 
D1G1T4L said:
Verizon phone you mean? :(
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Not sure what you're replying to. If you meant visual voicemail, nope it's MCI that's had this feature for years... for landline phones, anyway.

MCI VoiceMail Login

After login, I get presented with a list of messages. I can then listen to or delete any, in any order. So basically, visual voicemail but over the web. Haven't tried it from a cell phone yet, though.

In hindsight, it's weird that this kind of thing has been around so long, yet Apple was the first to bring it onto a cell phone. I guess this just shows that often a newcomer sees things differently, for better or worse.
 
MarkW19 said:
I wonder if the US and UK iPhones will be 100% identical, hardware-wise, meaning that if I can download the UK restore image (likely, as you can currently download the US restore image), I can wipe my hacked US iPhone and then start right from the beginning, and activate it on it's UK network, when it's released.
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Haven't you heard? We're getting 3G, no-one would buy a data-centric device using dialup speeds. :D
 
kdarling said:
Not sure what you're replying to. If you meant visual voicemail, nope it's MCI that's had this feature for years... for landline phones, anyway.

MCI VoiceMail Login

After login, I get presented with a list of messages. I can then listen to or delete any, in any order. So basically, visual voicemail but over the web. Haven't tried it from a cell phone yet, though.

In hindsight, it's weird that this kind of thing has been around so long, yet Apple was the first to bring it onto a cell phone. I guess this just shows that often a newcomer sees things differently, for better or worse.
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I was just sadly referring that there wasn't an MCI anymore :(


emotion said:
Haven't you heard? We're getting 3G, no-one would buy a data-centric device using dialup speeds. :D
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Heard? Has there been an official announcement that I missed? What are you referring too?
 
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