[Tig] iPhone 3G white point adjusted

[Bob Kertesz]

>iPhone service in Brasil, as of last year, was exclusively on cracked  
>models.  iPhone service in Ukraine, until now (and maybe the future)  
>is only on cracked models.

Sure, but that was because the first generation of the device was designed to
ONLY work with the U.S. AT&T system, and nothing else. This was a point that
Apple made UNMISTAKABLY clear at every opportunity. AT&T underwrote much of
the development cost in exchange for this exclusivity feature.

In order to make it work elsewhere and on other U.S. systems, the phone had to
be cracked.

What I never understood was why people would insist on cracking it and using
it on other systems, when one of the most useful (to me) features, the Visual
Voicemail (which allows out-of-order selective listening to messages) only
worked on AT&T. 

The deal breaker for me on Gen 1 was the inability to search the notes field
in the contacts database.  I'm sure someone actually had to go out of their
way to make it not do that. If there's something dumber than that on a smart
phone, I'd like to know what it is. Well, OK, and the fact that the old one
(and the new one) don't support any form of cut&paste. Someone needs to slap
Steve Jobs' face really hard for that one. WTF?

The first generation was not that great a phone anyway. I understand the
second generation has improved voice quality. It's the user interface and web
interface and the form factor that's the major winner on the device. And G2
appears to work in many countries, although still with limited providers.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
BlueScreen LLC
Hollywood, California
bob at bluescreen.com