On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:41:56 +0100, "IanM" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>
>"BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>news:ksi5141td8pghsvbgiu7inusl9v15000ip@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:25:11 +0100, alan@darkroom.+.com (A.Lee) wrote:
>>
>>>> I am wondering, is it legal to purchase a iPhone and just stick in my
>>>> exisiting o2 simcard - as i have a brilliant deal from o2 and i am not
>>>> prepared to spend more money for less minutes!
>>>>
>>>> Also would the phone need unlocking or not since i have an o2 customer?
>>>
>>>Yes, you would need to unlock the phone before use, as it needs to be
>>>registered before it can be used, and you need to sign up for a Contract
>>>when you register.
>>
>> If the phone is only going to be used on o2 then all he needs to do is
>> just Activate it with something like ZiPhone. Activating with ZiPhone
>> will skip the whole iTunes 'sign up to one of these contracts'
>> process.
>
>Do you have to keep away from ITunes after using Ziphone?

Goodness no. I needed to have iTunes open in order to get ZiPhone
working. There are plenty of tutorials out there but here's one I did
for uk.rec.motorcycles recently which is about an "out of the box"
iPhone including details of how to upgrade it to 1.1.4 using iTunes:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....2804d437f37254

And this bit is the follow up, as I missed it originally when writing:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....42bf1746d74131

Enjoy.
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