V710 Hacker Reward Program Unsuccessful

maxofthewell points to the announcement at the top of ""Regretfully, the OBEX hacker's contest for the Motorola v710 was unsuccessful. As of the contest's deadline (January 3, 2005) nobody has stepped forward to claim the prize. Many useful inventions and modifications came out of this effort." Full report here."

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Re:Unfortunatly Common

[DiscoOnTheSide]

You're right about the CDMA phones being locked to their carriers, although I've heard a little blurb here and there about how in theory they could interoperate. GSM DOES have the capability of being multi-carrier, but in the US the carriers lock the software to their service. However, these are usually bypassable by either A) buy a european/asian GSM phone and just buying a SIM from the carriers, or B) using software found online to get the unlock code for the phone (usually an algorithm based on the IMEI number) which you enter in and *wham* multi-carrier phone. I'm planning on a European tripto Europe in the next year, so I unlocked my Nokia 3650 (T-Mobile) so when I'm over there I'll just buy a prepaid SIM that has so many minutes and I'll still have my phone.