The SIM card is accessible through a slot in the top of the iPhone, but the battery is not user replaceable.
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iPhone Subtleties: Feature Lock, Capacity
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That's what I was thinking as well. They can't just disable the whole phone when you're not receiving a signal from AT&T, so iPod, Safari, et. al should work as long as you at least have a AT&T sim card inserted (and the phone was previously activated).
I don't see why people would have a problem with their phone's media player portion being crippled without service. What good is a $600 iPod with only 4-8GB and no wireless plan? Really big waste of money. For less you can get an 80GB and play with it all you like. Want a big screen? Get an Archos, and still not pay iPhone prices.
Yup. I guess you open it like the battery compartment of the apple remote: insert a needle in the small hole and you pull out the sim card tray.
I am still looking out for the iPhone Backpack (or maybe iBackpack), a combination of iPod hardrive and battery that cradles your iPhone and connects via the dock port.
It would double the thickness of your iPhone (or make it similar in thickness to a Zune) and wouldn't be expected for normal use (i.e., running around town), but it would be an excellent solution for people going on a long plane trip and want to take along and watch several movies.
A variant could be a battery-only iBackpack so you can carry a spare battery for those long trips (I would hate to arrive at the airport only to find my cellphone battery dead). Next to the lack of Microsoft Exchange server support, the lack of replacement battery for the iPhone is the biggest iPhone complaint by pundits.
If such a device become available, and Engadget is right about Apple licensing Exchange Active Sync, then Apple will have crushed the biggest complainers about the iPhone.
A wide-screen iPod with Internet access via WiFi
Now, if Apple could add iChat and Skype... then it would really be cool.
New iPod
Right, but then there is the new video iPod to consider. It's almost a given that it will include the same multi-touch technology, interface, wide screen format, the accelerometer, and CoverFlow. Might it also have WiFi? I think it will. Basically everything but the phone and mobile broadband.
Of course they won't release that until the iPhone mania settles down in a few months from now.
Right, but then there is the new video iPod to consider. It's almost a given that it will include the same multi-touch technology, interface, wide screen format, the accelerometer, and CoverFlow. Might it also have WiFi? I think it will. Basically everything but the phone and mobile broadband.
Of course they won't release that until the iPhone mania settles down in a few months from now.
Originally Posted by Macrumors
In addition, TUAW has noted that Apple and AT&T are serious when they indicate that a 2-year service plan is required when purchasing an iPhone. According to fine-print on Apple's rate-plan webpage, even iPod features of the iPhone will be locked until the phone is activated after purchase of a service plan through iTunes.
give me a break! if apple told you to walk off a cliff i am sure you would do that too! (and utter idiotic reasons why this is good as you fall to you death).
In addition, TUAW has noted that Apple and AT&T are serious when they indicate that a 2-year service plan is required when purchasing an iPhone. According to fine-print on Apple's rate-plan webpage, even iPod features of the iPhone will be locked until the phone is activated after purchase of a service plan through iTunes.
give me a break! if apple told you to walk off a cliff i am sure you would do that too! (and utter idiotic reasons why this is good as you fall to you death).
And as Random Ping suggested above, imagine if that also had a Skype (or Skype-like) IP Phone client and iChat in stead of SMS. Imagine also with 80gb HDD. So we might still need to carry two devices, but we could just get the worst cell phone out there and count on using the iPod as a phone an internet device in any available Wifi hotspot.
No *user* removal battery.
Sooo... you'll have to send you iPhone in somewhere, or read instructions and risk scratching your phone as is the case with iPods.
No user replaceable battery is retarded.
I think the point of the article was to say the 80 GB shown in as a graphic was an editing error in the graphics department as they used something else not an iPhone to obtain that image as iPhones are 8 not 80 whatever you want to use as a measuring method.
If that iPhone battery life is anywhere close to accurate, then even without the wifi it would be a worthy upgrade. But I'd like the wifi anyway, and maybe some
TV-style streaming.
Looks like arn thought otherwise.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/320034/
Dude, chill out. Overreactions put you on the road to Ballmerization.
Flash Card Slot!!!
This should get everybody going....
What if the slot on top is not for a SIM, but instead holds Compact Flash Cards! More storage and makes the iPhone semi upgradable.....Flash prices are rediculously cheap now......
This should get everybody going....
What if the slot on top is not for a SIM, but instead holds Compact Flash Cards! More storage and makes the iPhone semi upgradable.....Flash prices are rediculously cheap now......
Contract Break??
I have a question, which a lot of non-US residents might have as well.
I travel frequently outside the country. If I am in UK for New Year's does that mean I will not have a cell phone to make a call with???
Does Cingular/ATnT unlock phones after the 2 year period?? It cant be that after 2 years they will keep people locked in as well. That will breach the agreement.. correct?
Any insights?
I have a question, which a lot of non-US residents might have as well.
I travel frequently outside the country. If I am in UK for New Year's does that mean I will not have a cell phone to make a call with???
Does Cingular/ATnT unlock phones after the 2 year period?? It cant be that after 2 years they will keep people locked in as well. That will breach the agreement.. correct?
Any insights?
A wide-screen iPod with Internet access via WiFi
Now, if Apple could add iChat and Skype... then it would really be cool.
Bump on the iChat. I'm disappointed, especially as Leopard 9A466 has ditched the "Answering Machine" in iChat 4.0 from previous beta versions. Seems Apple may have planned on using video conferencing on the iPhone through iChat but may have decided on pulling it. Hmmmm.
Actually, in the original post it says "Apple shows during other parts of the video the capacity of an apparently empty 8 GB iPhone as 7.24 GB", and then goes on to repeat the nonsense that the "missing" .76 GB is due to "formatting".
Very, very little space is used by formatting. A huge amount appears to be lost, however, because the disk manufacturers use the correct definition of GB (i.e. 10^9) and the operating system manufacturers usually use an incorrect definition of GB (i.e. 2^30).
The IEEE, SI, NIST and other international standards bodies are trying to eliminate the confusion by promoting prefixes which make it obvious that a binary multiple is being used, and reclaiming KB/MB/GB et al. as unambiguous decimal multiples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
On March 19, 2005 the IEEE standard IEEE 1541-2002 (Prefixes for Binary Multiples) has been elevated to a full-use standard by the IEEE Standards Association after a two-year trial period.[17]
Wait! You can open an iPod. I've replaced the battery in my iPod--something I understand you cannot do in an iPhone.
Sorry, the word "gibibyte" is ****ing stupid-sounding, and hard drive manufacturers using decimal for "gigabyte" is just a way to extract money out of people. I will never say the word "gibibyte" out loud.