Why complicate things? You can get a dirt cheep smartphone here in Israel and then go to any of the netwrks and buy the SIM with the plan that suits you...
I wouldn't go into buying refurbished phone at all - to many things can go wrong : a friend of mine bought a Samsung Galaxy S II at one of these dealers here in Israel and the screen went dead after two months. Of course, the dealer denied any warranty or liability and it turns out it was a fake from Japan... I'd buy a new phone, right from the official dealer. I just bought my Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) for 2400 NIS. Amichai. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson < [email protected]> wrote: > On 7/28/2013 12:29 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > > So I looked it up, jailbreaking is legal but if you hand the phone in >> in it's jailborken state they will claim your warranty is void, if you >> restore the phone to factory before handing it in you should be fine >> (at least according to the people on the oh-so-trustable internets) >> > > Jailbreaking is a minor issue. First of all, only a small portion of > iPhone owners do it, most have no need nor clue as to why one would do it > in the first place. > > > Jailbreaking can be removed by resetting the phone back to the state you > bought it, which can easily be done using iTunes and anyone who has enough > tech savvy to jailbreak it in the first place knows how to do it. > > To keep this the least bit on topic, Android also has a "padded cell" > which prevents you from installing software except from the Google store, > but it can be turned off via a user settable option. > > > The problem is removing SP (usually mislabeled SIM) locks. If a locked > iPhone does not have its SP lock removed by Apple, it has been tampered > with and will not be repaired. > > Service Providers that sell SP locked iPhones, unlock them through Apple. > > I have never seen an SP locked Android phone, although I am sure they > exist, so I have no information about how one unlocks them. > > > > Ehm... the iDen network is still up and still heavily used. >> > > Ok, thanks, I thought it was dead. > > > But yeah I also heard rumors that they'd like to close it and move >> everyone to 3G, I guess if they provide stable PTT services on those >> networks and devices that are rugged like most iDen devices most >> people won't mind. >> > > There are several private (as in non government) trunked radio systems in > Israel, eventually everyone using MIRS will either go to cell phones, or > buy time on one of them. Keeping the MIRS network going for the few users > they have today will become less and less worth the cost. > > Note that MIRS is the name of the system and service, iDen is a US > vendor's name for their service to separate it from Motorola's MIRS service > and other trunked services. > > > > > Pelephone didn't start with no customers, when the market was just >> released I actually spoke to them to see if I wanted to move to them >> but at the time their 3G network wasn't operational yet and I would >> have had to buy a new (old) phone just to connect to them. >> > > Pelephone has been mistreating customers since the first cellular service > in Israel. They started out with AMPS, then NAMPS (which failed miserably > in the rest of the world due to poor service in hilly/built up areas. They > they moved to 800mHz CDMA, which was even worse in terms of crowded or > hilly areas. > > > > > As far as I can find online Pelephone is still operating it's old >> network (EV-DO/CDMA2000) but aren't accepting new customers with that >> technology... >> > > Geoff. > > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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