[DM-MUG] iPHone sighting in Beijing

[Bill Davis]

They are not in Asia yet. I've read that many/most iPhone's are being  
bought and unlocked for use with carriers other than AT&T and for sale  
elsewhere.

You lose things like Visual Voice Mail when you do that because only  
AT&T knows how to supports that.


Or he could have just been roaming on a iPhone locked to AT&T and will  
be in for a schocker of a bill, as has happened to folks when  
traveling overseas with an iPhone.

Also, Apple made some changes in the recent iPhone software update  
1.1.1 so that people can turn off more of the phone's usage of the  
cell radio to prevent large bills outside the normal coverage area.

Apple's update  also disabled any phone that was unlocked. Lawsuits  
have started about that last bit!  I hope Apple loses, frankly.

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On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:20 AM, "Victoria L. Herring"  
<vlh at herringlaw.com> wrote:

> just returned from trip to Beijing and saw some stores in mall area  
> selling iPods and iMacs and on the last day in a tiny restaurant in  
> NW Beijing [inside ringroad, near Drum Tower] a guy came in, started  
> using something that looked to me like an iPhone to take pictures  
> and I asked him if I could take a picture of him with it, which I  
> did [when time, will put it on our website] - I thought they weren't  
> supposed ot be in Asia yet, but on close inspection it does seem to  
> say China Mobile in upper L corner [which is the carrier there, as I  
> found out on turning on my iPhone in the airport for a bit].  The  
> guy at one of the mall stores seemed to tell me they weren't being  
> sold in China yet, but apparently some people have gotten their  
> hands on them.
> -- 
> Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Travel Research & Photography site, <http://www.JourneyZing.com 
> >;   Online Gallery at http://victoriajz.smugmug.com.  Images up now  
> at Arte Gallery, East Village in Des Moines;  hope to see you at  
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