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    07/11/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: China Gets iPhones Early, But With Disabled Wi-Fi
    Didn't hey already did this (disabled Wi-Fi) with the 2G iphone too..?
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    07/10/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: China Gets iPhones Early, But With Disabled Wi-Fi
    I didn't know the CEO of Verizon was in charge of the Chinese government.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    07/10/09

    @GarciaConcern: Huh?
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/10/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: China Gets iPhones Early, But With Disabled Wi-Fi
    Reactivating Wi-Fi? Giz, seeing as to how the Chinese government requested it, I'd damn well assume Apple actually removed the wifi chip, period. Nothing to reactivate....no matter how good of a hacker you are.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    07/10/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: These days, it's not a chip though. It's all in a jam-packed chipset, with radios doing multiple tasks. I am not going to say for sure, but I would assume it would be a software jerry-rig before it was a true hardware revamp. But then again, the Chinese market is worth like 10 other markets combined, so maybe...?
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    07/10/09

    @Wilson Rothman: Eh, you're right...Good point, didn't think of that. I mean, even from a production point of view, I really don't think Apple would want to segment their production lines: these iPhones/chipsets for China, these iPhones/chipsets for everybody else. That likely wouldn't be economical for them. Probably have a specific firmware for them then...
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    07/10/09

    @Wilson Rothman:



    The people over at iSupply say it's a dedicated chip, though it contains Bluetooth, too.
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    07/10/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:

    That's why bottled water has expiration dates. New Jersey required 2-year maximum expiration dates on their products, IIRC, so the bottlers just decided instead of making a seperate line for those bottles deemed to be going to NJ, they'd just label them all.
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    07/10/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I'll give them 10 minutes before they've got Wifi up and running again. I don't think they'll gimp the hardware, but if they do, shouldn't be hard to get the parts. The phone is made in China already!
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    07/10/09

    @apus: There's probably a wifi antenna somewhere in there too, although it might be shared with the bluetooth antenna.
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    Image of orthorim orthorim
    07/10/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Even if they removed a physical chips, shops would just offer putting it back in. This is China and it's all about service. A chip that has been removed can easily be put back (unlike if the functionality hadn't been in there in the first place).



    If it's locked in the firmware or in software, the hack to put it back in will be widely available too.



    I live in Aisa and the little shops here selling unlocked/jailbroken iPhones will do a full service too - they'll replace broken screens, non-working radios, batteries, anything you can imagine. There are iPhone kits available that contain all the spare parts. Sometimes you got to love capitalism ;)
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    07/10/09

    @Wilson Rothman: No. Most of China would not be able to purchase one due to the poverty gap. They have maybe half the people we have in a position to actually buy one.



    As for stealing, well, that's another issue...
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    07/10/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: China Gets iPhones Early, But With Disabled Wi-Fi
    Sucks for those folks to make something they can't even have. Bout time they get the phone, but jeebus don't cripple it. Lousy govenrments... oh yeah, and get off my porch!
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