Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta

[narangz]

^^It was always the software that mattered in case of iPhone! I guess no one here ever questioned its hardware.

 

[ajayritik]

Is there anyone here in this forum who possesses and iPhone?

 

[Tanmay]

I have 1......

 

[aryayush]

And Preshit does too now.

 

[preshit.net]

Yep, I do too.

 

[ajayritik]

Tanmay! Where did you get that from? I was interested to get one! I was wondering should I wait till its launched in India! I have a feeling it will take sometime to be launched here. If at all I get it from US will it be a tough task for me to unlock it and how much would be the expenses for unlocking?

 

[aryayush]

Unlocking is a single click procedure. Does not need any expertise at all beyond the normal starting up the computer, listening to music and shutting it down sort.

However, I would advise you to wait for it to be officially released in India. No warranties for you otherwise, and probably no official third party applications either (though, since it will already be jailbroken, you can enjoy the vast library of free unofficial third party software).

 

[iMav]

could some1 shed light as to how an iphone is registered .... as in is it registered by apple when it is purchased or its registered like the iPods .... we get pre-unlocked iphones from apple at a high cost how are they registered ....

 

[Tanmay]

iPhone is registered ? Didn't quite get you there. But people buy the iPhone from the Apple Store which is Locked and cannot even be booted to the Home Screen.

Apple does not sell Pre-Unlocked iPhones. The Activation Process takes place through iTunes.

If anyone does need Warrenty then theres only 1 way. Ask a relative in US to buy it from an Official Apple Store, send it to you and if by any chance it breaks down you'll have to send it back to that relative get it replaced and shipped back again.

This is only feasible if you have someone from US constantly coming here every month or so.
So if you have a lot of relatives in US, then you're in Luck. Else take the risk and get an iPhone from Grey Market.

I got some 6 months back....and its working good till now....I don't see why it won't last another 1 Yr atleast so that I can sell it and get the next iteration of iPhone

And btw accr. to me theres no real use waiting for the iPhone in India. For 1 it would still be Locked with some compulsory Costly Plan needed and 2 its pricing too will be atleast 20% costlier than US Pricing.....

and probably no official third party applications either (though, since it will already be jailbroken, you can enjoy the vast library of free unofficial third party software).

I don't think that Unlocked iPhones won't be able to use the AppStore cause the Unlocked iPhone already are able to access the Wifi iTunes Store and buy Music right off it, so I don't see any reasons why the AppStore should act differently....

 

[iMav]

Apple does not sell Pre-Unlocked iPhones. The Activation Process takes place through iTunes.

France they have a law by which a fone cant be locked to a single operator as a result an unlocked fone costs a bomb and the 1 with orange costs what it should

If anyone does need Warrenty then theres only 1 way. Ask a relative in US to buy it from an Official Apple Store, send it to you and if by any chance it breaks down you'll have to send it back to that relative get it replaced and shipped back again.

unless the iphone is released here too
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[Tanmay]

They're insanely priced at France ! Whoz gonna spend 749€ (1114$) for a thing that costs 399$ in US which can be Unlocked (which is legal) and also which still remains under warrenty !

And I don't think iPhone will come here anytime earlier than Diwali.....

 

[aryayush]

I don't think that Unlocked iPhones won't be able to use the AppStore cause the Unlocked iPhone already are able to access the Wifi iTunes Store and buy Music right off it, so I don't see any reasons why the AppStore should act differently....

Well, the applications will all have a digital certificate embedded in them that might check to see whether the phone is being used on a supported network or not.

Of course, I hope not.

 

[iMav]

chances of a sdk based app not working on an iphone are very less i would say 1% but its apple we are talking abt so these %s dont matter

i was just wondering that lets say i buy an iphone from the gray market, patch it and then lets say apple comes out with the iphone in india tied up with an operator i get upgrade my iphone thereby locking it and then getting myself a plan of that operator whcih would in ther terms make my iphone legit a long shot but yeah i mean it cud wrk

 

[aryayush]

I don't think it would. Since the registration method, etc. for each country is different, I'm guessing that there is some form of hardware registration in place that would allow Apple to immediately recognise yours as one of the AT&T phones.

 

[Tanmay]

Every iPhone has a unique Serial No and IMEI......so its easy for Apple to know which one is Grey Market and which one is purchased from Store...

 

[iMav]

Every iPhone has a unique Serial No and IMEI......so its easy for Apple to know which one is Grey Market and which one is purchased from Store...

tht depends on how they register the device all ipods have a unique no. but theres no wayapple comes to know which has been purchased from whr

 

[MetalheadGautham]

You can. Only the 3rd party apps will not run in the background. Listening to songs is built right into the device.

did I forget to mention that I am talking about music videos which run and take half the screen, while the remaining half is for the doccument viewer ? And its going to be in a variety of formats, like FLV, Theora, VP7, etc(all stamp sized)

 

[Tanmay]

but theres no wayapple comes to know which has been purchased from whr

Err... why not ? They should be having a Centralized Database....every company works that way....every product works that way.....

Say you bot a Transcend RAM, with the Bill you get, the S/N would be noted there....so you can't take another broken RAM inplace of the one you bot and replace it

 

[iMav]

theres no way apple comes to know from where the ipod was purchased because once u purchase it or procure it at no matter what cost or from where u urself register the ipod using the unique no at the back of each ipod and the after sales is given based on the date at which the ipod was registered online and when u go for service all the service guys chk is the date on which the ipod was registered online and this they do by entering the unique id printed on the back of the pod

trust me iv got gray market pods registered and serviced on more than 1 occasion

 

[goobimama]

And btw accr. to me theres no real use waiting for the iPhone in India. For 1 it would still be Locked with some compulsory Costly Plan needed and 2 its pricing too will be atleast 20% costlier than US Pricing.....

Me too thinking the same thing. If I get it from the US, it will be INR16k. Gaya to gaya. I can't take the wait any longer. By this time next month I should be having an iPhone