"BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:161614h0fjuuclv45r0vfujj6p6meifd08@4ax.com...
> 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.

nice one, thanks