[LINK] the Apple iPhone rort

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:15:10PM +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> The iPhone buyer has the option of agreeing to a 2-yr contract with  
> AT&T, or can easily sidestep this and have a device that can browse  
> the web and act as an iPod, amongst other things. It hasn't been a  

This is not the case - at least not officially.

Until it's activated, which requires an AT&T connection, most of the
functions on the iPhone are disabled - including the 'iPod'.

Yes, the activation process has now been hacked to some extent, but
the point remains that officially you need the activation via AT&T,
and without the phone account you've got little more than a small shiny
box.

  Scott