So Im planning on packing it in next year and heading back to the motherland (Canada) with my wife in tow. I've got myself an iPhone over here (jailbroken) and I want to use it back in Canada. My wife doesn't have an iphone but is thinking of picking one up over here and taking it to Canada because they're practically giving them away for free here but I don't want her to get one until I know for sure it can be hooked up back home. Does anyone know what I have to do in order to get the thing hooked up back home? Any downfalls of hooking up unlocked phones in a new country?

Thx

They aren't free here. They are free with contract. If you don't keep the contract for 2 years you have to pay for the phone plus cancellation penalties.

You can use it in Canada if you unlock it, which is not the same as a jailbreak, but it makes updating more annoying and the latest one may not be unlockable.

I say just get one in Canada.

This doesn't really belong in this thread, but I thought it's not worth to open a new thread.

Since most of you are quite familiar with computers and other such techi things, you probably already know that iPhones keep track of your whereabouts and download these informations on your computer.
Now two people have created a little program, with which you can see your location-history displayed on a map.
Here is the link to their site: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

And here is a short newspaper article about this "keeping track of your whereabouts":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/201...vacy-fears

Biene Wrote:This doesn't really belong in this thread, but I thought it's not worth to open a new thread.

Since most of you are quite familiar with computers and other such techi things, you probably already know that iPhones keep track of your whereabouts and download these informations on your computer.
Now two people have created a little program, with which you can see your location-history displayed on a map.
Here is the link to their site: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

And here is a short newspaper article about this "keeping track of your whereabouts":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/201...vacy-fears

I just discovered a news-article about it. This will surely boost the good reputation of Apple, their products, and their sales-figures. *not* The transparent citizen doesn't have to take care of personal data, if a device does it for him, making him traceable wherever he or she goes, buys, thinks. This makes it easy for the governments, data-sellers, etc. to take control over the citizens lives.

There is news about drop-box as well. The FBI is getting access to encrypted data a user has uploaded.

Orwell 1984 has become reality.

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Yeah it is completely off topic, and Apple most likely had no malicious intent with these. My guess is that data was for the FindMyiPhone thing that you can opt in when you first connect the device to iTunes.

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It seems Android collects location data too. Guardian Article.

Companies keeping a record of your location can be useful sometimes: "I was trapped in a ravine for eight days".