 |
 |
I really want a iphone but have verizon family plan
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
is there gonna be any chance iphone will get hacked to work on verizon , im temped to buy to use as a mp3/4 player.. saw them refurbed for 399????? any ideas
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
Status:
Offline
|
|
no way you can hack this version of the iPhone for Verizon. The current iPhone is GSM only; Verizon uses CDMA.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Well, if you're skilled at swapping out its GSM innards for CDMA components, sure you could theoretically hack it to work on Verizon...
|
|
MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16 (Black)
iPod classic 160GB
iPhone 8GB
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The deep backwoods of the PNW
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by stagfish 
is there gonna be any chance iphone will get hacked to work on verizon , im temped to buy to use as a mp3/4 player.. saw them refurbed for 399????? any ideas
You want to spend $400 on an iPhone just to use it as a DAP? It's only got 4GB flash memory - save your money and buy a nano.
The iPhone is not going to be made available for Verizon anytime soon - the hardware is GSM-only right now (uses a SIM card), and AT&T's got exclusive rights to the iPhone for something like three years. Sorry.
|
|
Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by stagfish
is there gonna be any chance iphone will get hacked to work on verizon
No. End of story.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
do you think I can buy the refurbed iphone and do the hack unlock then use it as ipod video and use the wifi???
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Puerto Rico
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
17" iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 2 GB RAM - 500GB HDD
12" PowerBook 1.33GHz PowerPC - Doesn't Boot :(
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
By it's now unlocked to use another GSM network, and as stated above, Verizon is CDMA, so even unlocked, the iPhone won't work on Verizon's networks. Sad, too. I left Verizon for the iPhone, and I miss them. AT&T is just a pain in my ass. I've been with them for two months and one the phone with them already five times. I hardly ever had to call Verizon for help.
Oy.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: ~/
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by AC Rempt
By it's now unlocked to use another GSM network, and as stated above, Verizon is CDMA, so even unlocked, the iPhone won't work on Verizon's networks. Sad, too. I left Verizon for the iPhone, and I miss them. AT&T is just a pain in my ass. I've been with them for two months and one the phone with them already five times. I hardly ever had to call Verizon for help.
Oy.
About what? My wife and I also switched from Verizon for our iPhones, and I haven't had to call AT&T since the phones were activated.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Billing problems, mostly. I made my first payment online, got a confirmation code and everything, and then they sent me a notice I hadn't paid ad my bill was overdue. So I had to get them on the phone to discover the fraud department rejected my payment, and then I had to call them. It took forever to get through to them, as in days, and when I did, they had no idea what happened. They said they'd clear it, let me make my payment and take the late charge off.
But they didn't. I had to call them again.
And then when they did, I had to call the the customer line to make the payment which they couldn't take because fraud hadn't lifted the hold.
That took a day or two to clear up. Then this month, I still couldn't pay online.
And on and on.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: ~/
Status:
Offline
|
|
Bummer. Hate when crap like that happens.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, me too. Never happened with Verizon. I left AT&T years ago because of the same kinds of problems. Stupid iPhone 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
Bummer. Been with AT&T (in one form or another) for about 6 years and I've only called them to activate international roaming.
|
|
MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16 (Black)
iPod classic 160GB
iPhone 8GB
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Well, let's hope it's just teething pain. I'll let y'all know if I keep having problems.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
Status:
Offline
|
|
I had a series of calls to Sprint a few years ago. It lasted a couple of days; was over a huge over-billing on their part. I eventually got it fixed along with a credit. Sprint sucks anyway though -- routinely rated worst or second-to-worst in the country. I'll dump them next spring when my 2 years is up.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top