On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dylan Semler</b> <<a href="mailto:dylan.semler@gmail.com">dylan.semler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<br>On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Dylan Semler wrote:<br><br>><br>> Speaking of phones, if one wanted to take that route, I've been<br>> following the OpenMoko[1] project for a bit now. A fully open source<br>
> mobile phone complete with a VGA (640 x 480) screen and a GPS. I'd<br>> expect you could get it to sync and do pretty much anything you could<br>> think of regarding using it as a PMP. The only downsides is that it's
<br>> not out yet (ETA of March) and it doesn't have WiFi. Future<br>> generations of this device look promising.<br>><br>><br>> [1]www.openmoko.com<br>> <a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-January/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-January/</a><br>> 000000.html<br>><br><br></span><span class="q">Any mobile phone has to operate on somebody's network, and the<br>problem with a lot of the fancy units (like the iPhone) is that they
<br>want to lock you in to a particular vendor, usually not the best one<br>for you.</span></blockquote><div><br>From my understanding, one of the reasons that the OpenMoko is GSM (as opposed to CDMA) is that the network providers have much less control over the handheld devices. I feel like as long as it has a valid SIM card from any GSM carrier, it should work.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>This is true for an unlocked phone. When you buy a phone in the US through a phone company with a plan they lock the phone so that it will only operate with their network. This is done because they subsidize the cost of the phone in exchange for the 1 or 2 year agreement. Sometimes the phone companies will unlock the phone at the end of your contract if you ask, or you could get one of the stands in the mall to do it.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>In the same sense, shouldn't the iPhone work with T-mobile (or any other GSM carrier), if you have a T-mobile SIM card? I'll admit that I'm on Verizon so I'm not too sure about how the SIM cards work.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>The iPhone will be locked to Cingular, so no you will not be able to use it on T-Mobile, unless you can get someone to unlock it. Verizon uses CDMA and does not use SIM cards. It is possible to switch a phone between CDMA providers (such as Verizon and Sprint) but you need to change the information in the phone's memory.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>It was supposed to be so Easy.