{"id":339,"date":"2008-08-22T02:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-11-09T03:09:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T21:39:37","slug":"possible-technical-glitch-in-iphone-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2008\/08\/possible-technical-glitch-in-iphone-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Technical Glitch in iPhone Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just came back from the iPhone India launch. Here is a list of what all went down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breaking News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Windows was being used to activate the iPhone!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>Person who bought the phone second, got it almost an hour late.<\/li>\n<li>Around 30 people bought the iPhone today.<\/li>\n<li>The Mobile Store will also be retailing the iPhone, most probably only with Airtel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seconds before the launch there was silence and someone had the balls to shout\u00a0 &#8211; &#8220;iPhone sucks.&#8221; That was me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now for the glitch:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the sales rep:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple has a database of IMEI nos. and first 4 digits of the no. on the SIM card. Now these 4 digits allow Apple to know whether the phone is from Airtel or Vodafone and maybe same goes for the other international operators. The IMEI &amp; first 4 nos. tell Apple whether the phone is legit or no.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, I can use any old Airtel SIM card with my new iPhone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, under the assumption that a consignment of iPhones being sent to India has a certain range of IMEI nos. if someone is able to get the range of the IMEI nos., which I may add is pretty simple as the IMEI is printed on the back of every phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coupling the facility of being able to use any old Airtel SIM card &amp; the ability to find and spoof the IMEI no. 1 can theoretically fool iTunes into thinking that this is a legit phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming to the event, the event was drab. Onlookers were asked to come up on stage and sing songs. There were mimicry artists &amp; magicians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">7 out of 10 people had no clue what-so-ever about what was happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is me at the event:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/qik.com\/swfs\/qik_player.swf?streamname=6c1cae8b03cb41c08dfaece4415c21fe&amp;vid=214616&amp;playback=false&amp;polling=false&amp;user=preshit&amp;displayname=preshit&amp;safelink=preshit&amp;userlock=true&amp;islive=&amp;username=anonymous\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of the iPhone India launch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2008\/08\/possible-technical-glitch-in-iphone-activation\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7K6iCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[841,241,173,402],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-india","tag-iphone","tag-launch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}