[FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Steve Smith
Our AT&T Contract is about to run out and I'm fed up with their service (mostly voice). I was once a T-mobile customer and found their service better even back in the day... Anyone have experience with hacking the iPhone and using it with T-mobile in this area? I hear rumors of a Verizon dea

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Steve Smith circa 01/17/2010 11:01 AM: > Anyone have experience with hacking the iPhone and using it with > T-mobile in this area? Not in that area, obviously, but one of my colleagues uses a jailbroken iPhone on t-mobile up here and he seems fine with it. But why not just Do The Right

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Owen Densmore
Its quite easy to hack an iPhone for tmobile. Check this site: http://www.iclarified.com/tutorials/iphone/index.php .. under Unlock. Pwnage Tool is the most popular. I use it on my 2G iPhone. I use a standard digital plan, but its ancient and been grandfathered at least twice. Verizon

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2010-01-17 Thread Birchard Hayes
The rumor mill sez that there will be a Verizon iPhone by the end of this year. However, it will have been built for Verizon's network and will be slightly smaller (at least that's what the spy photos show.) I plan on switching to an Android phone on Verizon when my AT&T contract ends in

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Steve Smith
Thanks for the feedback. ATT cell-tower handoffs: My big beef with ATT is that I get dropped at every cell-tower handoff I encounter. In particular, at Jacona, at the top of Santa Fe hill, and then somewhere near San Felipe (which is fine since San Felipe Dip drops me 90% of the time anywa

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Thanks for the feedback. T-mobile: I can't quite remember why I got fed up with T-mobile 5 years ago, but I am a little leery about going into another contract until I've got a better feel for what I'd be getting from them. Anyone (even

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread pparyski
Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 5:12 pm Subject: Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ? On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. > > > T-mobile: I can't quite remember why I got fed up with T-mobile 5 > years > ago,

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Roger Critchlow
igured out how to do this as well.) > Paul > > > > -Original Message- > From: Owen Densmore > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Sent: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 5:12 pm > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ? > > On Jan 17, 2010, at 3

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-17 Thread Douglas Roberts
me nerds have also figured out how to do this as well.) >> Paul >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Owen Densmore >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > >> Sent: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 5:12 pm >> Subject: Re: [F

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-18 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:51 PM, ppary...@aol.com wrote: Any iPhone can be jailbroken so that it can use services other than ATT, but a jailbroken iPhone will not be able to load new apps from Apple (altho some nerds have also figured out how to do this as well.) Paul I haven't heard of the app

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-18 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: If prices come down to ~$50/month for unlimited data + phone service I might consider jumping back in. As it is, having POCPS (Plain Old Cell Phone Service) is actually kind of ... peaceful. Peaceful? Parrots? :) Cost is *definitely* a

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

2010-01-18 Thread Douglas Roberts
Well, discounting the fact that whenever the phone rings several of the parrots shout "HELLO!" after each ring until I can answer it... And then the Macaw invariably says, "Hi! How are ya?" in a voice that closely resembles that of Foghorn Cleghorn. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Owen Densmore