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Cingular informed me this week that I can have my phone unlocked for free just by filling out a form with them.
Really? Then I guess the risk is minimal, or at least documented.
I wish I'd had the phone unlocked in Kenya. Or even known it was locked -- I didn't even find out until I tried a purchased SIM.
I want mine unlocked on principle. I paid enough for this bitch.
It's an unofficial release, but folks might be interested in Google Earth For OS X.
Also, NASA has something similar.
I want a Google Solar System. Just type the planet or moon's name, and you fly there.
Or Google Galaxy, while I'm at it.
There actually is a program like this, but I didn't like the interface much. Then the PC that I installed the demo on died.
I can't run Google Earth on my work computer; it keeps crashing. So sad.
There's Celestia:
Oh cool - I didn't know about that one.
Open source too, so if there's something about it that sucks I have an alternative to whining about it.
Has anyone here ever unlocked their phone?
For Luddites like me who are cellphone-less, what does this mean?
This is a bit late but going back to Jon's request for help re the large file. There is another alternative; bittorrent. The BT client, Azureus has its own internal tracker, which is used in conjuction with a site such as dyndns.com. The "tracker" can be password protected so that, on the very remote chance, someone else finds the URI, they still can't access the page.
US cellphones are all software-tied to the vendor. I could get a Razr from T Mobile and not be able to use it with my Cingular SIM because of some subsidy code or crap they have in the software. So when I went to Kenya, I bought a local SIM, but couldn't use it in my phone.
Unlocked, with the software code, you can transfer just by moving your card from SIM-enabled phone to SIM-enabled phone. Your phone number moves with you, as well as any address book entries (in a stripped down format) that you saved to the card.
Interesting - the ultimate Video Conferencing system. At more than half a million per room, and $18,000 per month you would have to save one hell of a lot of plane travel to fixed locations in order to pay for it. But apparently some large corporations with travel between multiple company sites have found it worthwhile. I can't help but wonder if you could not get comparable results less expensively.