Dear nerds.

[tyggerjai]

I have an iPhone. I think 2g, 16g. It has the latest firmware, but no sim card (Don't ask. This is China, alright?). So I can't apparently use it for anything - even with an unsupported sim card it doesn't seem to ... do anything.

Now. I don't, actually, want to make phone calls with it. I want mostly to use it as a handy portable wifi device. Does anyone know if that's possible, with an unsupported sim? And, y'know, how to do it? The interwebs tends to assume that you have a supported sim and can work from there, it seems.

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine bought it, I think on a plan, and then we threw him in a swimming pool. With the phone. He decided it was a writeoff, bought a new one (into which he inserted his sim), and gave me the old one. I dried it out, changed the battery, et voila.

So the payment status is ... undetermined.

Eh. I might just go get a plan with 3. It's not going to kill me.