Well, i'm pretty sure those carriers have an agreement with apple to allow them to unlock the phone... This isn't some group of bandits in the night - it's Vodaphone, and when apple tries to screw a large company out of providing a legitimate service to its customers (unlocking lets them save money when roaming, and in Europe that's a big deal), it is really weak.
I'm not a hater though, from the description it sounds like it was on accident. Still... i wish they would just let people do what they want with the damn things! -Taylor
This is a side note not pertaining to the story above: I read yesterday of a workaround of sending MMS from an iphone. You still can't receive but were have ways there lol
@Mars Yeah, but that can be a pain in the ass... I tried that with tmobile last week with a friend and after sending like 10 messages with different settings, i couldn't get it to work. :-/ -Taylor
@Mark: exactly. Specially English speaking people continuously spell it VodaPHone instead of VodaFone. The two mayor languages that write "phone" with "PH" instead of with an "F" are English and French. The rest use "F" (examples: German, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Slavic languages like Croatian, Slovenian, etc, Norwegian, Spanish, Polish...). As always, the weird ones are the English and French ones :-P (May the bashing begging!).
PD: Interesting though that VoDaFone (Voice Data Fone), being a company from the UK, actually took the Universal way of writing it instead of the Anglo-Saxon way.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Carriers in attempt to protect revenue shocker! You read it here first!
Since upgrading my 3g, bluetooth is acting funny, and I can't get my email anymore! Anyone else having that problem?
Well, i'm pretty sure those carriers have an agreement with apple to allow them to unlock the phone... This isn't some group of bandits in the night - it's Vodaphone, and when apple tries to screw a large company out of providing a legitimate service to its customers (unlocking lets them save money when roaming, and in Europe that's a big deal), it is really weak.
I'm not a hater though, from the description it sounds like it was on accident. Still... i wish they would just let people do what they want with the damn things!
-Taylor
This is a side note not pertaining to the story above: I read yesterday of a workaround of sending MMS from an iphone. You still can't receive but were have ways there lol
here is the link for the info
http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/08/04/picture-messaging-mms-workaround/
@Mars
Yeah, but that can be a pain in the ass... I tried that with tmobile last week with a friend and after sending like 10 messages with different settings, i couldn't get it to work. :-/
-Taylor
vodafone
why do people seem to change their brand name...
yeah, I "read it here FIRST"... thanks...
@Mark is right.
It's Vodafone with an f, not Vodaphone with a ph. (Heh even my Firefox spell check knows it's wrong.)
Yeah it's only a trademark but the misspelling always annoys me.
@Mark: exactly. Specially English speaking people continuously spell it VodaPHone instead of VodaFone. The two mayor languages that write "phone" with "PH" instead of with an "F" are English and French. The rest use "F" (examples: German, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Slavic languages like Croatian, Slovenian, etc, Norwegian, Spanish, Polish...). As always, the weird ones are the English and French ones :-P (May the bashing begging!).
PD: Interesting though that VoDaFone (Voice Data Fone), being a company from the UK, actually took the Universal way of writing it instead of the Anglo-Saxon way.
"Specially English speaking people"
Specially??? Seriously???
Vodafone? Aren't they Softbank now?