Comments on: iPhone 3G Available for At Home Activation?

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:16:43 +0000

I thought everyone knew? The only way that I’ve heard of getting the iPhone 3G through Apple or At&t is to buy the iPhone, sign up for a service plan, cancel the plan after 30 days, then you have to pay $175 cancellation fee for cancelling your service with them. The $199 iPhone 3G, 30 days of service around $70, cancellation fee is $175. (These are minus taxes). Comes out to $444 (closer to $500 after taxes). So what way are you thinking it can work? Cause if there is a new way of doing it, let me know. Cause I’m all for it! =)

By: jaylou180

jaylou180 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:42:01 +0000

I also believe activation through itunes will be possible. I have a iphone 3g 2.2 jailbroken. On two occasions for no reason my iphone went into activation mode. You know the lock screen stating connect to itunes. I was unable to do anything until I connected to itunes and it state phone is being activated and after that everything was fine. Has anyone experience this, let me know.

By: mastuul

mastuul — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:00:45 +0000

You can’t unlock a 3G yet, only jailbreak it. The sim card is not what varies from the old iPhones to the new ones. But if you’re an AT&T customer you don’t need to worry bout that.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:13:25 +0000

Elliot: thanks for your time, i’ll go finish my purchase now, just to clarify I will only be accountable for the cost of the phone, and if its not activated i have a $200 paper weight, at no other costs to me?

Jerry H.: Yes, that is true.

Elliot: thank you!

By: Elliot

Elliot — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:09:39 +0000

Part of an convo. with ATT rep

Jerry H.: When you make the purchase with the plan online it will come with the plan your ordered. If you wait after 30 days a new plan will be needed, because it would expired without being activated.

Elliot: ok, so I can order the phone online now, choose whatever plan, then give it to my dad 30 days after i bought it, so then when he goes into itunes he can choose the plan he needs and wants? and my credit card will only be charged $199 + tax?

Jerry H.: Yes, that is true.

By: iphonejunky

iphonejunky — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:07:06 +0000

my question is..if i have a 2G and i get this 3G..cant i activate it through Quikpwn and just use my 2G sim card and still be on AT&T???

By: toNYc311

toNYc311 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:20:12 +0000

This is my opinion on the whole “unusable” after 30 days scenario. Every iPhone and iPod Touch has a serial number. iPhones have an IMEI code as well. Maybe just maybe those numbers are tracked by AT&T. After the 30 days are up their servers will reject that code from activation.

Now that might not mean that you can’t jailbreak it and then activate it with another carrier. That’s unknown. Brooke why didn’t you just ask him what he meant by unusable? I’m sure he would have answered as helpful as he seemed.

Anyway, if my theory is sound then it wouldn’t matter as long as you don’t plan on using AT&T as your default carrier. The iPhone 3G has not been unlocked in it’s current modem firmware 2.2 as well. So you’d have to also wait for the dev community to take care of that as well.

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:39:15 +0000

So can I get it online and get it shipped to my house….? Even if I am not an ATT Customer…?

In that case, I could get one and try to unlock it with a TurboSIM…..

By: isedo

isedo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:15:34 +0000

hahaha ,,
(,”) looks like u dont trust

By: ridla

ridla — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:15:19 +0000

I wonder can it be activated with quickpwn?