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Re: Unlocking My iPhone

aa — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:43:21 -0000

wow I wish the iPhone 3 g was only 200 dollers it says that it is only 200 but when u buy the phone from rogers they get you right in the ass the phone cost me 600 dollers which I kinda think was a complete rip off

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

n8k99 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:15:23 -0000

you probably already figured out that disqus emails you notice that someone has commented, and if you have disqus tied into your friendfeed account, you do have a friendfeed account don't you, then it will show up there as well.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

fredwilson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:09:03 -0000

Jailbreak the phone and then unlock it and use it on tmobile

I did that for my daughter and it works great

Google unlock iphone video and you'll find a video that shows how its done

Fred

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Jeff Roth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:13:06 -0000

test.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Jeff Roth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:11:24 -0000

how can i tell if anyone has responded to my questions. I am new to this and i cannot figure it out.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Jeff Roth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:09:18 -0000

I live in a town where AT&Ts service is a joke. I bought the iphone and switched fro Sprint to AT&T, but I literally drop 5-10 calls a day and I cannot use the $500 + phone at my home. It is too late for me to return the phone so I am looking into unlocking it and using it w/ Tmobile which has much better reception in this town. I have a few questions for anyone with knowledge about these issues. I would pay for the help if it were possible. Here are my questions;

1. What website should I use to unlock my iphone? I am o.k. with paying for the software, but I do not want to gewt screwed and I want to make sure that I am getting what I pay for.

2. If I have already set up my iphone through apple, can I still unlock it? is there anything special I need to do to accomplish this?

3. What will I be able to do once I have unlocked the phone.

I hope someone answers me, this is the first time I have ever written anything on a blog, that is, if this is a blog.

PLEASE HELP. I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL FOR ANY INFO.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Jason Preston — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:21:49 -0000

I may have answered my question with a little Googling. It looks like there's an app called iActivator that activates your iphone sans-plan.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/...

I wonder if that's enough for the phone to be unlocked. Might try that, Fred!

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Jason Preston — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:16:15 -0000

I'm looking at buying an iPhone now and unlocking it with the free software, and I'm curious about the answer to Fred's 2nd question. It looks like nobody knows?

Also, can you unlock the iphone without first activating it? And are there ways to activate it that don't involve buying a plan or a pre-paid plan?

Can I have a friend, who already has an AT&T plan, activate my phone with their sim card?

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Dan Keldsen — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:30:02 -0000

Have not (yet) bought an iPhone, still weighing my options while remaining blissfully mobile mail free at the moment.

However, I'm going to Denmark in a few months - anyone who has unlocked an iPhone and traveled abroad, I would love to hear about the experience, as it would be awfully handy (no pun intended) to have mobile mail/web available for this trip, and others brewing that will have me untethered for a good amount of time.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

fredwilson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:44:23 -0000

yeah, i guess that's the way it is with the iPhone. my family paid $200 too much to give it to me as a gift because they didn't wait another couple weeks. and i paid $99 too much for the unlock because i didn't wait another couple days. i guess the thing with the iPhone ecosystem is you wait and prices come down or go away.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

fredwilson — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:42:55 -0000

i am not going with pre-paid Stepehen. i am just doing that to activate the phone on AT&T (you have to sign up for some kind of plan to activate the phone). then i am unlocking it and running it on our t-mobile family plan.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Stephen L. McKay — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:43:39 -0000

Fred,
I'm not wealthy. My net worth is probably one tenth, and probably somewhat less than that of yours, but please, give your daughter a contract plan. Teach her responsability, by giving her some!
You seem like such a great dad, but prepaid is so expensive Vs. a plan, and if you are the owner of the phone, you have ultimat control.
Why would you go with pre-paid?

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

JT — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:26:37 -0000

You've just wasted a lot of money. The $99 piece of software you just bought is now free.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Robert Seidman — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:05:30 -0000

Is this some kind of Mt. Everest "because you can" quest? If so, fine but since you will take your blackberry everywhere why not sell your still in the box iphone and just buy an iPod touch? You love music and you can get a16gb model. You will appreciate the extra memory and you werent a likely candidate for doing email from the iphone.

If it's the Mt. Everest thing, enjoy the summit!

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

fredwilson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:08:17 -0000

i bought it a couple days ago

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

fredwilson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:07:49 -0000

it lets me run the iPhone on T-mobile which i much prefer to AT&T. I keep my sim card, can use it on my blackberry, can give it easily to my daughter who has a t-mobile sim card too.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

stan — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:37:25 -0000

just a warning, after you use it for a while you're gonna want to keep it for yourself which may upset your daughter

This was written on my iPhone

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Michael Sitarzewski — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:22:41 -0000

Wow, didn't see the other comments before I made mine. Sorry about that :-P

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Michael Sitarzewski — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:21:52 -0000

Hi Fred, you may not have seen this yet, so I'll paste a link: http://iphone.unlock.no/ It is free unlocking for the iPhone. There is now a GUI to do it too. I have no experience with the two questions you asked, however :-P

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Ryan Crocker — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:11:01 -0000

Licked iPhones were a common occurence on launch day.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Didier DURAND — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:49:42 -0000

LInk to the open source / free version of unlocking: http://www.engadget.com/200...

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Scott Yates — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:59:37 -0000

The thing with prepaid is that after every time you interact with ATT you get a notification that you have just used 13 cents, and you have 47.87 left, or whatever. Even when you are using the web and have something that costs 0 cents, you get that. Super annoying.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Shivering Timbers — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:54:27 -0000

On point 1, there's no need to activate the phone on the same computer you'll ultimately sync it with. I activated my wife's iPhone on my computer (then sealed it back in the box so I could give it to her fully ready to use), and when she connected it to her laptop, iTunes recognized it right away and already activated and ready to go.

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Brian — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:24:24 -0000

Re: Billy's comment above, check out Giz today: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/...

Re: Unlocking My iPhone

jackson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:20:09 -0000

Seems likea lot of work for a phone.