We already know that the
iPhone won't have any issues
functioning on the other side of the pond, but an interesting suggestion from the CEO of Carphone Warehouse has got Europeans looking a bit more closely at how things will eventually be ran in their neck of the woods. It was stated that "in order for the iPhone to function correctly, there is a requirement for Apple servers to be placed deep in the operator's network," which has led some to believe that Apple could have a "a non-GSM, non-standard way of authenticating its phone." If true, this would likely make operators much more willing to subsidize the handset if necessary when competition from rivals inevitably catches up, but it sure won't make users happy who enjoy "unlocking and reflashing phone operating systems to get around operator device tie-ins."
[Thanks, Marc]
posted Jun 10th 2007 9:02AM
sounds kinda like how to hiptop works
Or the Blackberry
Yeah...your right. Of Course because it is Apple.... well now it has to be blown out of proportion. The increased popularity of Apple products and the constant migration of Windows users to the Mac does'nt help, but only amplifies negative sentiment.
The only thing I foresee might require special Apple backend is the random access Voicemail feature. Then again, I don't see why that can't be reverse engineered.
The iPhone has a special way of delivering voicemail to the handset. To implement this its going to need some backend services to call on that are integrated with the voicemail provider. So it seems quite reasonable that some features of the iPhone will not work if you just pop in a SIM card from a random GSM operator.
Europeans bitch to much. Like us Americans.
These days people are forever decrypting and hacking firmware and systems. i'll give it a few months before someone figures out a way to unblock the iphone
I'm pretty sure that some form of freedom of network choice is mandated by the EU, so we'll just have to see what it has to say about this...
The voice mail option might not work, but who cares about voicemail in EU. For 6 years and 4 different operators I have used voicemail only once.
However, it can't have non-standard way of authenticating the phone, since it would never work in roaming.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the EU have rules that require operators to unlock phones?