25% of iPhones UNLOCKED

[Jay2TheRescue]

Originally Posted by RadioRaiders

Sounds like Thumb Cellular has got you "Under their thumb" Do they use the Stones in their commercials?
"Its down to me
The way she talks when shes spoken to
Down to me, the change has come,
Shes under my thumb
Ah, take it easy babe
Yeah"

Yes, it's Canada's fault entirely! Focus the blame on a strange and hostile foreign nation for all your problems, it's the American way

"Sheila: Well? Blame Canada!
All: Blame Canada!
Sheila: It seems that everything's gone wrong
Since Canada came along!
All: Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
Man: They're not even a real country anyway!"

....but seriously, on country border areas there are less frequencies available on both sides because they need to be coordinated, but I don't see how that would affect the buzzing. Unless the interference is so bad your phone is maxing it's power all the time in an attempt to overcome it? Maybe your phone isn't sheilded well? Or your electronics is also not well sheilded? Maybe just a "perfect storm" of all these things...?


I used to get the buzzing alot 6-7 years ago when the phones weren't sheilded that well, and my phone always sat next to my computer monitor that was also cheap (and a tube). But now with well built flat-screen monitors and better shilded phones, I rarely get the buzzing anymore.

Here's my 2 cents worth. I get the buzzing in GSM mode only. I've never encountered it in 3G mode. Its worse when the phone encounters weak signal or no service as the power output for the phone is bumped up to its maximim to try and find a good tower. For the most part I only really encounter it in my 1981 Buick, or if my phone is left right beside my computer speakers. In the car I always find it useful as it gives me more time to find the phone before it rings. It does not happen often, and I do not find it to be an annoyance. I see it as a cellular form of bell tap (the old Bell System guys around here know what I'm talking about). I used to actually rig my landline phones to bell tap so I know when others are on the phone, and I know when the line is free. In the forums I participate where we discuss vintage landline phones there are always those that hate bell tap, and do anything to avoid it. I find it useful.

-Jay

[Jerro]

Originally Posted by Jay2TheRescue

In the forums I participate where we discuss vintage landline phones there are always those that hate bell tap, and do anything to avoid it. I find it useful.

-Jay

Jay: what forum is the landline forum?

[Jay2TheRescue]

Originally Posted by Jerro

Jay: what forum is the landline forum?

singingwires : Telephone Collectors International

-Jay

[SmArTeStChIlD421]

Originally Posted by Jay2TheRescue

Whatever... Anyway to get this thread back on track, if Apple is so concerned about people unlocking the iPhones why not make it like a Blackberry. Have the internet, text, and email proxy through Apple's servers. Then have the servers setup to only accept connections originating from "approved" domains, like ATT/Cingular. That way someone with TMO tries to connect the server deines them. Their iPhone is no good for Email, MMS, text, or internet. Voice only. Lots of unlocking would stop.

Apple should pay me for ideas like that...

-Jay

that actually is a very good idea but then you have over expensive data plans......i can see Apple charging $50 just for the data

Originally Posted by cellular_freak

I thought that Apple and AT&T's deal was only intended to go until 2009 and if they wanted to extend it, they could? I think it would be wise of Apple to end it in 2009. They should see that people don't want AT&T service or just don't want to switch because they're happy with their service (or they plain out just don't have AT&T in their area). I believe Apple should release the iPhone for T-Mobile and other minor GSM carriers at that time as well as release a CDMA version of the iPhone for Verizon, Sprint, Alltel, and other minor CDMA carriers. This is obviously what the people want. The RAZR wasn't locked to AT&T for THAT long!!!

I am thoroughly satisfied with my service at Sprint.....honestly.......my only problem with the iPhone was texting but once i borrowed my friends iPhone for the night and texted a lot i saw just how smart the texting was in that it figured out if you meant to press the key next to the one you actually pressed and word completion as well.....

Originally Posted by cellular_freak

Yeah, I could definitely see a 3G iPhone coming in the very near future. (Like this year) But I think it would be smart still for Apple to quit their agreement with AT&T and go with more carriers after 2009, because it appears that's what consumers want. (With 27% of iPhones being unlocked)

Well, you have to remember also how many of the 70 million of AT&T's customers who were acquired through acquisitions. Sure, they have the option of switching, but not very many people switch carriers once they get bought out. When you look at Verizon, they've made like no acquisitions (except for what's going on right now) and they're adds are purely from people who like their service. I know that AT&T has had equal adds but they've also had huge acquisitions to put them ahead of Verizon.

I've thought about getting the iPhone, but if ever a CDMA verision were released for Verizon, there would be no question that I would stay with Verizon. I have never been a fan of GSM with it's interference and such with electronics and CDMA (for me and most people I talk to) has better voice quality even in fringe areas. For example, my mom has always had a GSM phone and when I let her use my phone once, she was amazed at how much my phone sounded like a lindline even when we live out in the middle of the woods. That's why I would choose a CDMA iPhone first. (I'm hoping WCDMA is a lot like CDMA, but nobody has clarified this for me. I'm imagining that since Qualcomm makes chips for both that they would be almost the same)

WCDMA is UMTS......they are on and the same I believe.........I honestly like that since CDMA is an older technology it is much more mature in that 3G is far more widespread and such......but i have to give it to GSM......i just hate the battery life on CDMA phones