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More iPhone craziness. When everyone on the entire planet is d esperately wanting to get one but can't, some guys in the US bought a couple, t hen proceeded to immediately and systematically take apart a perfectly new and perfectly working unit. And take pictures. Gulp. (What I want to know is, can we see if we can swap GSM SIM cards on this thing? *wink wink* ) See these wonderful lunatics over at ifixit .com. Look if you dare. UPDATE: The ifixit page is a work in progress (they update the page as they go along) - and it's just been a few hours since they got the phone. Apparently my question's just been answere d - it looks damned difficult, but entirely possible. See the pic below, upper left - the Cingular SIM! I think a Globe, Smart or Sun SIM would look pretty at home there. Now the next question is, can we activate it through iTunes with a n alien SIM inside? Better question is, do we need to? (Hey, purely theoretical discussion here, folks. Just some geek talk. Don't mind me.) UPDATE II: Was watching an excruciatingly-difficul t-to-watch episode of Systm, where host David Randolph and guest hos t Leah Culver (who's a dead-ringer for Veronica Mars's Kristen Bell) of Pownce stress-test, torture and take apart an iPhone literally minutes after they buy it (stuff like dropping it onto the pavement f rom six feet up, or deliberately scratching it up with keys), and found out tha t you can after all just pop out the SIM card by pressing down on a teeny-tiny recessed button on the top of the unit. (By regulation, it has to be removable anyway.) This fact is probably somewhere in the downloadable manual, which I ha ve yet to read. Good to know.

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