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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

you can crack it pretty easy (my friend's runs off t-mobile), but if you want the new apps (and not hacker rips offs) I think you may have to go with AT&T.

they are supposed to be downloadable through iTunes. with a cracked phone, you won't be wanting to let it connect through iTunes unless you want it bricked.

you have to remember that cell phones are like really thick herb pipes, you can only drop off of yr lap getting out of the car so many times before the become shattered and useless.

I don't have a 'cell phone'.

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

oh, the fscking bastards.

that puts me back on crackberry territory again.

plus the reports of frequent destruction are not encouraging in the least.

there's a place that cracks iphones here and the iphone is not available for purchase here.

Blackberry.

Screw the iPhone. (Actually they're really kick ass. I just don't have $400.)

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Originally Posted by gmku

Phones should just be phones. Cameras should just be cameras. Computers should just be computers.

Don't mix all this shit up into one thing. That's wrong.

a computer is never "just a computer."

the personal computer is the first tool invented that can be any other tool that the software tells it to be, provided the hardware is hooked up properly - router, laser cutter, welder, thermostat, toaster, entertainment system, large format printer, photocopier, text editor, digital scanner, sound editor, image editor, drafting machine, fax machine, phone, library book check out machine, checkbook machine, movie rental machine, buying a camera machine, selling artwork machine...etc.

according to yr logic, each one of these tasks should be performed by a separate specialized device and we would still be using a typewriter to type these messages and a fax machine to send them. instead it's all done by one single meta-machine.

explain to me how this is a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i also want a camera that photographs what i'm seeing with my eyes.

and the ability to photoshop it mentally.

i can do that.

i just can't print it out yet.....

my mobile phone's a grey one.
i like it; you can make phone calls with it and send messages and stuff.

Mine is mixed race and it's nokia too.

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Originally Posted by Nefeli

cameras on mobiles its good thing. for safety reasons.

mine is black and its nokia.

mine's more nokia than yours.

lies.
mine's more mobile too.

Mine answers calls and texts back for me. It walks, it sings and it can count from 1 to 10. There you go.

well, mine has a ringtone so that if someone calls you'll hear a sound letting you know someone is calling you.

Mine is a hairy mobile phone, therefore proving to be the most virile gadget ever known to man.