iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

[cursal]

It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.

Read rest here

 

[insomnia]

Sweet

 

[Focus]

holy sh*t, thats big news dude

 

[PRED]

bookmarked, cheers :smilewinkgrin:
a few on ebay then?

 

[Gerry]

Damn, I wish that was my son who did that.

It was accomplished by a 17 year old (I believe that is correct) kid in New Jersey.

Kid wants to get into neuroscience to "hack" the human brain. He has already been accepted to college (that's a shocker).

But, all of this will soon be history as Apple has signed up with three major european telecommunication providers to launch the iPhone in Europe:

Apple signs iPhone deals in Europe
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsSt...px?story=59636

23 August 2007 12:58PM

Apple has signed up three operators for the iPhone in Europe, according to reports in the Financial Times.

T-Mobile is reported to have received the German contract, O2 the UK contract and Orange the French contract.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

That was bound to happen

 

[Gerry]

Which leads into another matter regarding the iPhone in Europe:

Apple iPhone Promoting .com TLD?

One of the key features of the soon-to-launch iPhone is its advanced web browser capabilities. The Wall Street Journal’s recent test report of the product describes the browser as such:

“The iPhone is the first smart phone we’ve tested with a real, computer-grade Web browser, a version of Apple’s Safari. It displays entire Web pages, in their real layouts, and allows you to zoom in quickly by either tapping or pinching with your finger. Multiple pages can be open at the same time, and you can conduct Google or Yahoo searches from a built-in search box.”
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To make the user’s browsing experience even more efficient, the phone even comes with a top-level domain (TLD) button labeled “.com”. Rather interesting given that today there are over two hundred TLDs in existence including .mobi. Patrick Vande Walle posted the following observation on his blog today:

“There are already 267 TLDs in the root. So, it is a little strange than the upcoming iPhone will have a special “.com” key to be used to type URLs. Why on earth did Apple decide to favour .com? How much has this cost to VeriSign? ...If Apple wants to sell the phone outside the US it will have to adapt to local customs.”
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Luckily, this is only a virtual button as the iPhone does not have any physical buttons on its front. So the question will be whether Apple provides—or plans to provide—a TLD button customization feature in the iPhone’s software?
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Well, the obvious solution and simplest solution to having a default TLD is no default TLD. This is the impression I get from this article.