iPhones without Telephone Service
posted in Technology |Some iPhone questions I’ve been mulling over. Overall the experience of the thing seems great from all the write-ups, I just don’t care about having one as an actual phone.
When you go to the Apple store and buy an iPhone, you don’t need to sign up for AT&T right there, correct? Can you take it home and use it with wifi and to store photos and music and watch movies with no phone service?
Of course that might also be useful for a developer who wants to play with the iPhone experience but doesn’t need it as an actual phone.
What’s the deal with the unlocked iPhones that are advertised? Is that for real? Could you buy one (apparently $800/$1000 for the two memory sizes) and use it with any carrier?
Mostly I’m likely to wait until generation 2 or 3 and compare how well the competition has caught up.