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iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice
A very large number of readers sent in stories about one or the other of the two new claims to have unlocked the iPhone for use on other GSM carriers. A New Jersey teenager, George Hotz, posted instructions for unlocking the iPhone using a soldering gun and a lot of patience. This is from coverage in a local NJ paper: "If someone handed him an iPhone new out of the box, he could modify it in 'about an hour,' he said. A person following his directions might take 'a good 12 hours,' the teen estimated." Hotz has put up a YouTube video substantiating his claim, and is conducting an eBay auction for one of his two hacked phones. The other hack is by a commercial outfit called iPhoneSIMfree.com, whose claim Engadget has verified. The company will be selling licenses to the hack, minimum quantity 500, at a price not yet announced. These hacks are much bigger news for those outside America. Expect to see an industry spring up to meet European (and Asian?) demand for freed iPhones.
Tt's the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and phew, is it stinkin' up the place!
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Bah, It's not like he made it's battery replaceable.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Well I guess the guy found a bunch of people who don't know how to snap their fingers ;)
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Perhaps you can draw up a Five Year Plan for the video game industry and we can implement it after the Revolution, comrade.
I'll work on rounding up the proletariat to design games for the People, so we can all play without anyone being trampled under these bourgeois capitalists who build electronics for money and orchestrate evil plots to make their products more attractive through proprietary software.
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ZDNet's George Ou Exposed as Ignorant Microsoft Shill (Zoon!)
The assault on reason isn't just a political phenomenon. Microsoft has long been developing its own cast of apologists who have eked out full time careers in the field of sputtering out ignorant, unfounded claims with such insistence and volume that the undecided simply have no alternative but to line up and applaud their seemingly convincing rhetoric. Among them is George Ou, who unsurprisingly blogs for CNET's ZDNet branded website.
Apple iPhone vs the FIC Neo1973 OpenMoko Linux Smartphone
Frequently compared to Apple's new smartphone, the OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 is described as the free and open software community's alternative to Apple's officially closed iPhone platform. Here's a look at what it really is and how it compares to the iPhone.
Apple salesperson: How are you today? Would you like an iPhone?
Customer: Sure.
Apple salesperson: We'll get you signed up with AT&T.
Customer: No.
Apple salesperson: Is the only service that would work.
Customer: Saids who?
Apple salesperson: Steve Jobs.
Customer: My 13 year old neighbor said his iPhone works with hotdog phone service.
Apple salesperson: The warranty may be nulled.
Customer: Saids who?
Apple salesperson: Steve Jobs.
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Thank you Grammar Nazi.
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How the fuck can you compare *that* with OpenMoko, a completely Free phone with a Free firmware, Free Operating System, Free applications, and community of Free Software guys prepared to spend $450 each just to debug the hardware for the benefit of humanity, so that for the first time ever, you can buy a phone that does whatever you want
Fuck, to fucking compare the fuck out of that fucking comparison, I fucking could fucking point out that for fucking fuck's sake, that fuck, it's like fucking OS X, sure fucks it's fucking less fucking free than fucking Linux, and fuck yes it's fucking more fuck bucks than fucking commodity fucked intel fucking hardware, but sweet freaky fucks if you're fucking aligned with the fucking basic goals of the fucking platform it fucking gets out of your fucking way and lets you fucking get your fucking work done.
The fuckers who keep fucking *whining* about how the fucking hardware they like to fuck with isn't fucking getting as many fucking marks on its fucking dance card as they'd like can't seem to fucking understand that there are fucking products out there that fucking may not align with *their* fucking particular fucking goals but still fucking-a align with other fucking people. The fucking iPhone fuckign does fucking exactly what some fucking people want it to, even if it doesn't fucking compile motherfucking gentoo.
Different fucking strokes for different fucking folks, mothafucka'. Can you handle it?
And BTW, the fucking folks who are fucking spending fuckloads amound of fucking time on this kind of fucking crazy platform fucking may fucking well be fucking smarter than their fucking open-source critics if the fucking iPhone does in fucking fact become a fucking popular mobile platform, like there's quake-fucking indications it fucking will. Maybe the OpenFuckingMoko will find a fucking place too, but fuck, there are very fucking few fucking consumer spaces where it's fucking best to bet on open fucking source.
Fuck with that, fuckers.
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Okay, I just had a mental image of carrying around a 300GB USB drive, with external power supply, just to boot my cell phone.
I'd do it, too. :|
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