{"id":1699,"date":"2010-03-15T22:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:18:58","slug":"iphone-sim-ibrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/iphone-sim-ibrick.htm","title":{"rendered":"iPhone &#8211; SIM = iBrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m out of contract with my iPhone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/how-uk-iphone-users-can-save-money.htm\">I&#8217;ve switched my account to something more reasonably priced whilst I wait for a new handset\/phone operating system combination\u00c2\u00a0to grab my attention<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, my work e-mail was switched over to an ActiveSync service and I wanted a 3G handset for that so I&#8217;ve &#8220;donated&#8221; my iPhone to business use for a few months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/10383682626\">I soon got fed up of activating the phone (via iTunes) every time I switched SIMs<\/a> between home and work (I don&#8217;t use my work number at weekends and when I&#8217;m on holiday), so I redirected my personal number to my work number.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was good -\u00c2\u00a0I listened to a few podcasts on the drive to work, made some calls, connected to my e-mail service, got back in the car (listened to some more podcasts) and drove to meet a partner at their offices &#8211; but then my iPhone decided that it had a new SIM (it didn&#8217;t) and that it needed to be connected to iTunes.\u00c2\u00a0 That caused a few problems:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have iTunes on my work PC (and nor should I have).<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have an iPhone\/iPod sync cable with me.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m working away from home&#8230; and I&#8217;m not going to drive for up to 2 hours in either direction just to get my smartphone working.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take took much imagination to work out that an iPhone that doesn&#8217;t make calls is not a very good phone.\u00c2\u00a0 And it turns out that it&#8217;s not really a very good &#8220;anything&#8221; because, as I drove to the hotel this evening, I found a number of other things that an iPhone without a SIM is useless for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It couldn&#8217;t work as a camera to take pictures in the late-afternoon winter sunshine.<\/li>\n<li>It couldn&#8217;t work as a GPS\/sat-nav device for helping me from the office to the hotel&#8230; 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i.e. that it&#8217;s the SIM\u00c2\u00a0that is supposed to control my identity and make it transferable between devices.\u00c2\u00a0 No other phone that I&#8217;ve used has needed to be activated using software once it has a SIM installed &#8211; it checks with the network if my details are valid and, if they are, I can make calls.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple!<\/p>\n<p>A phone that doesn&#8217;t work is pretty useless as a business tool &#8211; even if it&#8217;s a phone as remarkable as the iPhone was when it launched a couple of years ago (in my opinion, Apple has squandered the lead it had over everything else in the market).\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0fact that it&#8217;s not possible\u00c2\u00a0to simply insert a valid SIM and boot up the device\u00c2\u00a0is just one reason why the iPhone is not an enterprise product, although plenty of companies will be forced to support them by VIPs wielding enough power to override IT policies (just as we saw with Blackberry devices\u00c2\u00a0a few years ago).\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully a colleague is going to bring a sync cable with him tomorrow so I can (hopefully) get the thing working again in the morning &#8211; 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