Re: Nokia PC Suite

de Craig 01/31/2008 08:50

bealoid wrote:
> Craig <netburgher@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in
> news:_z7oj.3767$nK5.2139@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
> [snip]
>
>> </RANT-ON>
>> Cell phones are just so frustratingly "locked;" to carriers; to closed
>> OSes; to proprietary apps. ARRRGH. Is it too much to ask to have a
>> transparent data-portability proposition? Considering it's our bloody
>> data???
>> </RANT-OFF>
>
> I agree. There's some nice software to unlock some Nokia phones - you type
> in your phones IMEI, the operator and a code for your country, and it spits
> out a code that you type into the phone and it unlocks it.

I don't know how other carriers handle it in the US but ours give the
unlock codes & procedures over the phone. It's one of the first things
I do after getting the shiny things home.
>
> That's legal to do in the UK. Changing the IMEI number is not legal in the
> UK. (AIUI doing so is mostly to avoid stolen phones from being barred from
> all networks)
>

Hmmm. Our carrier's contract stipulates they can change our IMEI at
their "discretion." Dunno about the law ...

-Craig