Regular Pocket Picks readers will already know from last month that UK operator O2’s ‘unlimited’ data plan for iPhone is actually capped at 200MB per month. That limit makes it one of the least-generous data plans currently available in the UK.
Now Macworld UK reports a second blow for Britain’s potential iPhoners: the free wi-fi deal with hotspot operator The Cloud is also capped, at 60 hours a month. While that still allows around two hours of mobile web browsing per day, it limits any hope of using web-based iPhone IM clients for extended periods… Or servicing your Facebook addiction too heavily.
(Via Pocket-Lint)
All the more reason to never activate your iphone with the carrier. Thanks to the good folks at the Iphone Dev Team we can unlock any iPhone (at this time) for use with whatever carrier you like and whatever data plan you negotiate with them.
http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Even with the French having to sell unlocked iPhones at a premium it still doesn’t make sense not to just by one the ‘requires’ activation and run the great anySim.app from the dev team to both unlock the phone and allow it to run the great set of already existing and rapidly expanding applications available natively on the phone.
Power to the people.
Boing
True, but if you don’t want to get into hacking (and thereby voiding your warranty), and want a legally SIM-free iPhone, then picking one up in France will be (for the time being) the only way to do it.
Having read the anguished comments of American iPhone owners who managed to ‘brick’ their handsets with the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade that Apple released, it only seems right to point out that unlocking your handset is not always plain sailing.
Yes, the problems were eventually fixed by the hacking community — but Apple clearly left those owners out in the cold, refusing to help them fix their dead iPhones. Unlocking your iPhone is a choice many have made, and are pleased with the results, but it is not a black and white decision.