iphone looks great. appl stock up -good for me. what happened to leopard? also will it be possible to unlock i phone and work with t-mobil. i have 2 year contract already.
Unlocked or not, you will have to sign up for a two year contract with Cingular or you can't buy the phone. Also, the visual voice mail won't work on another network.
I feel the same way. I want to use it with T-Mobile. If all I lose is visual voicemail that's fine with me. I never had it to begin with. So it looks like I'll be buying one of these iphones off ebay unlocked.
The big question is, what's it going to cost to buy an unlocked iphone from an importer? Obviously it's going to cost more, but I wonder how much more.
I have t-mobile too and it kind of sucks. So I'd be willing to dump it for cingular.
My real question. I'm a cell phone dunce. What does it mean to unlock it. I mean I know that it's locked into cingular and you unlock it to use other services. In general what are you unlocking? Are you unlocking the part of the phone that tells it what service to seek out and use?
My real question. I'm a cell phone dunce. What does it mean to unlock it. I mean I know that it's locked into cingular and you unlock it to use other services. In general what are you unlocking? Are you unlocking the part of the phone that tells it what service to seek out and use?
The reason you can't use a cell phone you bought at t-mobile on a different cellular system is becaues there is a lock or block of that cell phones unique ID. This way, if you wanted to switch cell companies you have to buy a new phone. However, you can also pay your origional cell company to to unlock, or remove the block, on your phone. Then you can take your old cell with you to the new company.
ya i have tmobile, im ok with the switch, very i live i pretty much use cingular towers 80% of the time and works awesome, so im ok, im just not ok with their minute plans, currently i have the $39.99 600 minute unlimited plan, this needs to come to cingular, best theyve got is $59.99 for 900 minutes, i dont need that many and thats far too expensive..almost double..
Unlocking will surely occur. All of us over at howardforums are already begin to ponder ways
Afraid not. Stuff like Visual Voicemail requires Apple to work together with Cingular because it needs to be supported by both the iPhone and on the Network. They also have an exclusive Multi Year contract in the US.
I feel the same way. I want to use it with T-Mobile. If all I lose is visual voicemail that's fine with me. I never had it to begin with. So it looks like I'll be buying one of these iphones off ebay unlocked.
The big question is, what's it going to cost to buy an unlocked iphone from an importer? Obviously it's going to cost more, but I wonder how much more.
HA! T-Mobile has this nasty little habit of sending me Text Messages saying my Bill was late when every single Month it's paid on time, then charging me for those messages, and then one month they cut me off completely for several days and charged me $75 to reactivate.
I may hate the American Cell Phone system, but I'm glad it's Cingular instead of T-Mobile or worse.... Verizon (who completely screwed my Mum when she bought her first Cell Phone by outright lying about what the contract said when she was signing it, and now her Phone credit sucks)
I don't have experience with Sprint, but I do hate listening to both sides of the conversation whenever someone is using one of their Nextel phones on the bus.
Cingular is expensive, but I think Apple made the right choice with them. I can probably just stack it onto my current AT&T POTS and DSL services.
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The big question is, what's it going to cost to buy an unlocked iphone from an importer? Obviously it's going to cost more, but I wonder how much more.
My real question. I'm a cell phone dunce. What does it mean to unlock it. I mean I know that it's locked into cingular and you unlock it to use other services. In general what are you unlocking? Are you unlocking the part of the phone that tells it what service to seek out and use?
My real question. I'm a cell phone dunce. What does it mean to unlock it. I mean I know that it's locked into cingular and you unlock it to use other services. In general what are you unlocking? Are you unlocking the part of the phone that tells it what service to seek out and use?
The reason you can't use a cell phone you bought at t-mobile on a different cellular system is becaues there is a lock or block of that cell phones unique ID. This way, if you wanted to switch cell companies you have to buy a new phone. However, you can also pay your origional cell company to to unlock, or remove the block, on your phone. Then you can take your old cell with you to the new company.
Unlocking will surely occur. All of us over at howardforums are already begin to ponder ways
Afraid not. Stuff like Visual Voicemail requires Apple to work together with Cingular because it needs to be supported by both the iPhone and on the Network. They also have an exclusive Multi Year contract in the US.
Sebastian
I feel the same way. I want to use it with T-Mobile. If all I lose is visual voicemail that's fine with me. I never had it to begin with. So it looks like I'll be buying one of these iphones off ebay unlocked.
The big question is, what's it going to cost to buy an unlocked iphone from an importer? Obviously it's going to cost more, but I wonder how much more.
HA! T-Mobile has this nasty little habit of sending me Text Messages saying my Bill was late when every single Month it's paid on time, then charging me for those messages, and then one month they cut me off completely for several days and charged me $75 to reactivate.
I may hate the American Cell Phone system, but I'm glad it's Cingular instead of T-Mobile or worse.... Verizon (who completely screwed my Mum when she bought her first Cell Phone by outright lying about what the contract said when she was signing it, and now her Phone credit sucks)
I don't have experience with Sprint, but I do hate listening to both sides of the conversation whenever someone is using one of their Nextel phones on the bus.
Cingular is expensive, but I think Apple made the right choice with them. I can probably just stack it onto my current AT&T POTS and DSL services.
Sebastian