justin0469 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 If you are a little nerdy (like most of us on here). The only catch is to find a deal on the phone itself like this guy did.http://mediumjones.com/my-23month-iphone/249My $23/month iPhoneAcquiring the iPhoneSo a while back I was lucky enough to acquire an unlocked iPhone 2g for a killer deal from a good friend who upgraded to the 3g. I decided there was no way I was going to pay the $65/month voice & data + 2yr contract service plan just to have and use the world’s best phone. So naturally, I started searching for alternative ways around this awful money-pit.Jailbreak + Unlocking the iPhoneI first jailbroke my iPhone using Quickpwn, the popular DIY easy jailbreaking application. But I soon found the mac version of Quickpwn doesn’t incorporate the steps to unlock the phone. I instead needed to use iPhonePWN (for mac) to unlock the baseband on my iPhone. Unlocking the baseband enables me to use virtually any GSM enabled SIM card in my iPhone to send & receive calls.The GoPhone®Once my baseband was unlocked, I promptly drove down to the local AT&T store, and bought a $25 Pay-as-you-go GoPhone card (which comes with a new SIM card) and had them port my previous Verizon phone number to the newly acquired GoPhone account.To be safe, before activating my GoPhone account, I downloaded the iPhone app Boss Prefs in order to disable the Edge capabilities of my phone. We don’t want it pulling data down for 1¢/kb and sucking up my $25 card. I popped in the new SIM card, then activated my account and VOILA! Sending & receiving calls on my iPhone with a pay-as-you go card! The one catch – no visual voicemail. That is activated through AT&T’s iPhone only service plans.The Skype PlanIn order to take this one step further, I decided to see if my GoPhone - iPhone GoPwn could use the Medianet® service offered to regular GoPhone customers. Hoo boy! Full internet access for $20 per 100mb - not bad. This would never be sufficient for tethering to my laptop, but just enough to browse the web and reap the many benefits of an edge/3g enabled iPhone. SKYPE!! So next I downloaded the newly released Skype app. It works brilliantly! Skype to Skype calls with the iPhone are no problem! There was one catch… Skype app is limited to WIFI networks only. So I downloaded the jailbreak app VOIPover3G and this tricks Skype into thinking the phone is always on WIFI. I bought a Skype number for 9 bucks and an unlimited Skype callilng plan to get inbound and outbound calls to any phone for $3/month.Skype calls on the Edge data network are just fine and use hardly any bandwidth. I also downloaded the jailbreak app Backgrounder so I can keep my Skype app running while the phone is locked & in my pocket.ConclusionThat’s my story! I will keep some credit on my GoPhone account for emergencies, or occasional lazy moments, but besides that just a $20 refill for the data plan, with a little extra work using the Skype app, and I save myself a bundle using mobile VOIP! ++Extra Bonus - No contract, I can just stop paying if I need to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 Nice find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin0469 Posted April 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 The best part is that it has links to all the software you need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shittygsxr Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 I have been using an unlocked iphone for a while now and I just use a regular AT&T plan. The VOIP is a newer development on the iphone, following some on the iphone modding sites it was always a goal and i am glad they got it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demitrix Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 The best part is your using a data based phone without a data plan... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420gsxr1000 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 buy blackberry!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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