Boarding Passes on an iPhone

[Default] Thus spake Charles :

In article , Jack Hamilton
wrote:

Agree generally, but I think the Wi-Fi only iPad would be a better
choice that the iPhone. Wi-Fi connections are widely available around
the world, but the AT&T cellular connection works only in the US, and
they've dropped the unlimited usage option (so expect big bills - most
people neither know or care how large their pictures and attachments
are).

I just got back from a Bermuda cruise where I left the laptop home for
the first time in years and had my iPad and iPhone with me.It was nice
to have the iPad with the larger screen but I could easily have got by
with just the iPhone. As far as the unlimited usage option that would
only be good for domestic use anyway but I am grandfathered in. Those
who get new plans don't get it but most don't need the unlimited plan.
People don't use as much as they think. I am a heavy user and I would
save money on the new plans. Of course I will keep the unlimited plan
since I would only save $5 a month if I dropped it but probably should
not. I uploaded a bunch of pictures to Facebook from the iPhone, not
the iPad and it was easier from the iPhone. Also I was able to make
Skype calls from both the iPhone and iPad on the HAL Wi-Fi. Since the
phone is very portable if it were a choice of one or the other, the
iPhone or the iPad I would choose the iPhone. And with the phone you
could buy an international roaming plan although it is not cheap.

$4.99/month, prorated. It cut the price of our calls from Mexico by
more than 50% and almost 65% in the Caymans. If I was going to be
doing a lot of 3G roaming, though, I'd look at some of the SIM cards
available for purchase or rent and get the phone unlocked. We'r more
than a year in, so AT&T has to unlock it.

To save battery, I usually turn off 3G if I know that a) I'm going to
be in a WiFi area (like right now) or 2) I'm going to be out of 3G
network. I also turn off WiFi if I know I'll be out of WiFi range.
Usually.


As far as boarding passes on the iPhone that is easily done. There are
a number of ways to do it. The issue is that not all airports or
airlines will allow it. If there is a limitation on not having the
boarding pass of two people on one iPhone it must be a security
limitation from the TSA. There is no technical reason that two boarding
passes could not be on the iPhone. Honestly though since on a cruise I
always have checked baggage I just have the boarding pass printed then
and it takes a second. Having it on the phone is somewhat cool but that
is about it. It is easy enough to get a paper one at the airport.

We had no problems last September doing two on one phone. Continental
emailed me the PDF with all of the passes on it. The TSA agent in
Miami had no problems figuring it out. "Sir, you'll have to hold the
device, we're not permitted to do so." Mine, then scroll to her's.
The only trouble we had was at the MIA gate, where the gate agent
didn't know exactly how to scan them (just like paper). But the other
agent showed her how. "You don't hold it, they do. If you drop
it,you buy it. If they drop it, they cry."

American just sent out an announcement about mobile boarding passes,
but I don't know what the program looks like.
--

- dillon I am not invalid

Toby (Tri-Umph That's the Sweet Truth)
March 1998 - June 2010
What a dog. What a dog!

In article , Dillon Pyron
wrote:

$4.99/month, prorated. It cut the price of our calls from Mexico by
more than 50% and almost 65% in the Caymans. If I was going to be
doing a lot of 3G roaming, though, I'd look at some of the SIM cards
available for purchase or rent and get the phone unlocked. We'r more
than a year in, so AT&T has to unlock it.

AT&T does not have to unlock it ever and they won't unlock an iPhone.
Not even when your contract is over.

--
Charles

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:25:17 -0400, Charles
wrote:

In article , Dillon Pyron
wrote:

$4.99/month, prorated. It cut the price of our calls from Mexico by
more than 50% and almost 65% in the Caymans. If I was going to be
doing a lot of 3G roaming, though, I'd look at some of the SIM cards
available for purchase or rent and get the phone unlocked. We'r more
than a year in, so AT&T has to unlock it.

AT&T does not have to unlock it ever and they won't unlock an iPhone.
Not even when your contract is over.

Several third parties claim to sell iPhone unlockers. You would risk
damaging your phone if you used one, but it might work.

In article , Jack Hamilton
wrote:

Several third parties claim to sell iPhone unlockers. You would risk
damaging your phone if you used one, but it might work.

It can be certainly be done but it could cause issues including
bricking the phone or security issues in the future. All the iPhone
operating system updates have also fixed vulnerabilities that could
possibly be exploited. The hacks that unlock or jailbreak the iPhone do
so by hacking some vulnerability. If you update that may break the
unlock and you have to wait for that update to get hacked and unlock
again. I am getting an iPhone 4 to replace my two year old iPhone 3G. I
might go ahead and use one of those unlockers on my iPhone 3G after I
get it the new one. But since I already have an unlocked GSM phone for
use when out of the US I don't feel any urgency about getting any of my
iPhones unlocked.

--
Charles

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:14:17 -0400, Charles wrote:

In article , Jack Hamilton
wrote:

Several third parties claim to sell iPhone unlockers. You would risk
damaging your phone if you used one, but it might work.

It can be certainly be done but it could cause issues including
bricking the phone or security issues in the future. All the iPhone
operating system updates have also fixed vulnerabilities that could
possibly be exploited. The hacks that unlock or jailbreak the iPhone do
so by hacking some vulnerability.

Let me see, what's my favorite word to critique of your posts today?

Bull****.

Clue to Others: "It¢s far more dangerous to assume people know what
they¢re talking about, than it is to assume they don¢t..."
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:41:22 -0400, Ari Silverstein wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:14:17 -0400, Charles wrote:

In article , Jack Hamilton
wrote:

Several third parties claim to sell iPhone unlockers. You would risk
damaging your phone if you used one, but it might work.

It can be certainly be done but it could cause issues including
bricking the phone or security issues in the future. All the iPhone
operating system updates have also fixed vulnerabilities that could
possibly be exploited. The hacks that unlock or jailbreak the iPhone do
so by hacking some vulnerability.

Let me see, what's my favorite word to critique of your posts today?

Bull****.

Clue to Others: "It¢s far more dangerous to assume people know what
they¢re talking about, than it is to assume they don¢t..."

Since you have me killfiled, Chuck, and won't get the upside of what I
am going to post, I'll do so for any other person who might schlep
into this thread and take your "expertise" as expertise.

1) Partition a read-only (system side not user)
2) Create a RAM disk with bit-to-bit copy of user data)
3) Reboot
4) Install payload
5) Voila!

No vulnerabilities required, no exploitations, the system and user
data remain untouched. You can return the iPhone to it's previous
state at any time.

tongue out pwned
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On 7/11/10 1:14 PM, Charles wrote:
In , Jack Hamilton
wrote:

Several third parties claim to sell iPhone unlockers. You would risk
damaging your phone if you used one, but it might work.

It can be certainly be done but it could cause issues including
bricking the phone or security issues in the future. All the iPhone
operating system updates have also fixed vulnerabilities that could
possibly be exploited. The hacks that unlock or jailbreak the iPhone do
so by hacking some vulnerability. If you update that may break the
unlock and you have to wait for that update to get hacked and unlock
again. I am getting an iPhone 4 to replace my two year old iPhone 3G. I
might go ahead and use one of those unlockers on my iPhone 3G after I
get it the new one. But since I already have an unlocked GSM phone for
use when out of the US I don't feel any urgency about getting any of my
iPhones unlocked.


Handsets without sim cards: (even iPhones)

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mob...y/phone-finder

In article , Tom K
wrote:

Handsets without sim cards: (even iPhones)

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mob...y/phone-finder

Over 300 pounds for the cheapest obsolete iPhone 3G and over 500 pounds
for last years iPhone 3G. Exchange rate today is 1 pound equal $1.50.
Europeans can actually buy unlocked iPhones but at a premium price or
have their phones unlocked after a year. Unfortunately US carriers get
away with murder, there is no law that says AT&T has to sell unlocked
phones or unlock it after time so it takes a hack to get the iPhone
unlocked. You can even purchase unlocked iPhones from Canadian
carriers.

--
Charles