[LINK] the Apple iPhone rort

[Ivan Trundle]

On 12/07/2007, at 5:26 PM, Scott Howard wrote:

> 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.
>
The point (official or otherwise) that I was making is that it's  
possible to activate it with an existing AT&T account, and then  
remove the SIM card and use it as a non-phone device. The AT&T  
account doesn't need to be yours, either.

You don't need the phone account to use it.

iT