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Steve Jobs to speak at WWDC 2008, no way he'll talk about new iPhones {Engadget}
May 13th 2008 9:43AM You missed the smiley at the end of your post that lets others know your joking...
Without it, you sound like a e-twant.
FreeSat TV service goes live across the UK {Engadget}
May 6th 2008 10:20AM My new Bravia has built in HDTV digital tunner... can I not get these channels through that?
Sony's Bravia E4000 series is pretty as a picture {Engadget}
Apr 10th 2008 5:23AM Wow - I'm now torn between this and the w4000. Nice Design!
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:50PM H. Bennis - just had them a bit of paper with the AT&T sim's USIM number and ask them to swap it for the current one on your account.
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:37PM Austin_yeahbaby - intresting stuff. I guess voda staff can just enter any USIM number with no error checking.
But have you even tried signing up a customer to voda and typing in a o2 USIM number?
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:35PM H. Bennis -
iPhone NEEDS an AT&T sim. my methord probally would work with a contract sim. who knows. but i used a prepay.
1 network or 800 in a country, you will still get the same result.
The trick is to get the phone happy thats it's an AT&T sim. and the network to use the same sim for your uk contract/number.
Can someone else in the UK please try this out... I'm tired of this already. I just wanted to share my super-simple methord.
This would work with any locked phone even if the iphone never existed.
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:30PM Josh - I'm not a tech guy. So i dont have answers to headache worthy questions, but I asume that even tho it's a got a USA number or whatever, its just like a AT&T phone roaming over here.
I was told it only works because I got a new sim with 20 digits. It's got a little 3g logo on it, which i find funny seeing as i can't even get 2.5g on this thing!
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:26PM SuitCase - 100% lucky. If you get a arsehole on the front desk at the store, they wont help you because they dont want it to work and have authority issues. But lucky for me, the vodafone store guys i talked to are as excited to see the iphone working on their network as I was. It's simple, I saw the dude do it. Take down my phone number, do a few security checks to make sure I'm who I say I am, then edit the details of my account.
Phone turns on. Sim gives iPhone no problems (as it's AT&T) Network picks it up. Simple.
Im sure this will work with any other phone locked phone, as like i said, i did it before with my XDA that was locked to o2 when I first had my contract with vodafone. I wanted to keep the phone, so they used the o2 sim.
I'll try and take some pics and visit you guys as soon as i work out what #iphone is! Or someone else could do the same and take pics. Whatever. I just wanted to share the news. It's very very simple when you think about it. And best of all, no hacking. Even a simpleton can ask their network to change the USIM number on their contract to a new one.
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:08PM to SuitCase - there was no reprograming involved.
If they did just get a new sim out of the draw - it would not work now would it, because the sim knows it's a vodafone one. All sims do is hold info about the brand, type and store phone numbers and stuff... which is why my methord works...
The phone checks and confirms it's an AT&T sim. The reason it works is that vodafone picks it up and knows that that sim card is my contract and my number.
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 19th 2007 12:03PM Yeah, they need to reword the post. I got the idea because I had previously used an o2XDA with o2 sim with my vodafone contract by binding the o2 sim to my contract via the USIM number. No hacking needed!
