Comments on: Sim-locked

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:44:40 +0000

I think this is less about being locked into one network and more about being disposable. Apple want to create the ultimate device, but still want you to upgrade it every 2 years, so they make it disposable by locking in the sim, locking in the battery and leaving plenty of room for upgrades. In 2 years time – everyone will be ready to throw away their iPhone so they can have the new 60GB version that supports 3G on a choice of networks.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:33:42 +0000

The other catch is that you can't even use it as an iPod without activation via AT&T. So even if it were unlocked, there'd be no using it for anything other than a paperweight unless Apple supported activation on foreign networks. Look on the bright side; with 1 in 5 US adults wanting one, by the time it does get to NZ all those American beta testers should have refined the product!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:08:34 +0000

I think you might want to look at this:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070627_POGUE_GRAPHIC.html

Particularly the bit that reads:

“If you insert a pin or an unfolded paper clip into the pinhole and push hard, the preinstalled SIM card tray pops out. Any recent AT&T SIM card should work, although only after iPhone activation in the iTunes software.”

Doesn’t sound like a physically locked in SIM to me.

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:08:47 +0000

You are forgetting that in the US people are used to phones being locked. We think nothing of grabbing a SIM card out of one phone and moving it to another but in the US they have always had CDMA which don’t have SIM cards.

Don’t get me wrong I think it sucks how you won’t^H^H^H^H might not be able to remove the SIM card but just wait a couple of days before the hacks start and then we will really see how locked down it is.

It is a nice piece of kit but still very 1.0 in some features like no MMS, no 3G, etc. Time will tell and hopefully the next release will be 3G and hacked.

By: Buy in? Nope… lock in « business, strategy, governance

Buy in? Nope… lock in « business, strategy, governance — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:21:25 +0000

[...] in? Nope… lock in Rowan posted over here about how the iPhone will have an unremovable sim resulting in consumers being pretty much locked [...]

By: Rod Drury > iPhone Blessed

Rod Drury > iPhone Blessed — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:16:37 +0000

[...] For us in New Zealand, and in corporateland, it’s going to be frustrating to look and not touch. AT&T even lock the iPod features until you register and the minimum is a $US60 per month call plan. And in the iPhone case SIM locked really does mean SIM locked. [...]