<p>I was wondering if I were to purchase an iphone...can I use it under a T-Mobile service?</p>
<p>nope, it’s proprietary, only att</p>
<p>You can do what’s called jailbreaking, but you assume the risk of bricking your iPhone. Certain applications (e.x. Visual voicemail) may not work properly on the T-Mobile network. Updates may break your iPhone, although it looks like Apple is taking somewhat benign neglect for now (they’ve overwritten hacked firmware with new Apple locked firmware via iTunes, but haven’t broken beyond user repair or banned any phones from iTunes/the iTunes store).</p>
<p>This may change. Apple will be selling applications soon, and they want to control the distribution…</p>
<p>In a few days they’re going to announce something new with Iphones, so wait and see if they let out one on all (or more) carriers.</p>
<p>There might be a new iPhone announced, but not a break of exclusivity. [AT&T</a> has that until 2012](<a href=“iPhone exclusive to AT&T until 2012? - AfterDawn”>iPhone exclusive to AT&T until 2012? - AfterDawn).</p>
<p>That means that people will probably jailbreak the phones like the old ones (so you’ll be able to hack it to work on T-Mobile/some other local GSM carriers), but not CDMA like Verizon or Sprint anytime soon…</p>
<p>I’m waiting for the Android phones to be released. They’re going to be so much better than the iPhone, since you’ll have competing hardware manufacturers and an open source OS.</p>
<p>just unlock it. Everyone does it..you lose your warranty but whatever…</p>
<p>how do you unlock it?</p>
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<p>Yeah… you risk losing out on the hundreds of dollars that you invested, plus the cost of buying a new phone, and you guarantee losing out our your money whenever Apple decides to override the hacks, but whatever…</p>
<p>Except </p>
<p>1) Everyone does it.
2) Nobody ever gets screwed unless you’re a complete ■■■■■■. You could always sell your unlocked phone for as much as you bought it.</p>
<p>Except that factory defects do happen, so if you happen to get that one messed up phone, there’s no crying to Apple. And Apple hasn’t yet overridden the hacks so no one has been systematically screwed yet. But once they do (you can’t honestly believe they’ll sit by the sidelines forever), I doubt a broken iPhone would sell for 10% of its original price.</p>
<p>Oh, and have you ever heard of the “jumping on the bandwagon” form of propaganda? ;)</p>
<p>Peer pressure! Run away! Just kidding.</p>
<p>It doesn’t appear that Apple intends to take any action against modders, but its a risk you take.</p>
<p>New iPhone is 1/2 the price AND 3G AND built in GPS. Pretty good job, Apple.</p>
<p>Lol^^^. The iPhone is not much cheaper.</p>
<p>The new data plan is $30 the old one was $20. On average not you will be paying $12 more per month (taking taxes into account). Over a period of 24 months you will be paying $288 more than before the price drop. Its not cheaper and certainly not 1/2 the price.</p>
<p>it’s half the price because you have to sign with att for 2 years now…</p>
<p>@collegehopeful
Well, I won’t argue about you about the data plan price. That’s one of the hidden costs.</p>
<p>I don’t have 3G service nor do I want to buy a phone without insurance (Asurion, AT&T’s wireless phone insurance provider, will not insure the iPhone), especially if it has a glass front. My contract is up for renewal in a few days, and I’m not getting an iPhone. </p>
<p>The device cost is an important part..I see a lot of people do $50 rebates on their phone which require them to have $15/mo services for 2 years. Who’s the real sucker?</p>
<p>@diesel</p>
<p>True, you can’t jailbreak the phones anymore…</p>
<p>the price has nothing to do with being able to unlock it or not; att is now subsidising it, which they didn’t do with the first generation.</p>
<p>Old iPhone: You pay for a phone not subsidized by AT&T. You bring it home to activate it. If you don’t, you jailbreak it.
Result: Either way, AT&T doesn’t lose any money. Many people bought iPhones with the intent to unlock them, and who wouldn’t subscribe to AT&T.</p>
<p>New system: You get an iPhone subsidized by AT&T. You have to activate it in the store, so there is no way to avoid it.</p>
<p>If they allowed you to take a subsidized iPhone home, you could unlock it. If you unlocked a subsidized phone (without signing the contract first), AT&T is throwing away money, since they’re putting an investment in (by giving you the phone for cheaper upfront) but not getting anything from said investment (if you unlock it without signing a contract, AT&T won’t recover the money they used to subsidize the phone).</p>
<p>It has everything to do with jailbreaking. The new system means they can subsidize the phone without having to worry that said subsidy will not be recovered.</p>