
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.
I like to watch Veronica Mars episodes as well Lost. I found your blog on googl
e and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader
. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.