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Now that iPhone on T-Mobile is a reality, I was going to write about unlocking iPhone with a Mac, but I figured if I waited long enough someone would beat me to it. Problem solved.

Some additional recommendations, however:

1. Download iNdependence and use it to activate. The new version makes YouTube work too.

2. Get AppTapp, that shit is white-hot.

3. If you don’t want iPhoto to open every time you sync your iPhone with new photos, you have to change the pref inside Image Capture.app. I thought having to use Safari to set your default web browser was insane, but at least they’re sort-of not-really consistent.

4. I haven’t tested this yet, but the prospect of unlimited iPhone data for $6/month is cause for salivation.

The only annoyance so far is that iPhone seems to assume that you have new voicemail after you reboot it (presumably some mild confusion related to T-Mobile not doing the new visual voicemail protocol). After you dial the voicemail number, or actually get some, it seems to keep up.

It’s a nice upgrade from the 2001-era phone I’ve been using, which had 64 KB of memory, lacked a music player, camera, email, web browser, bluetooth, colour display, and touch-tone dialing, and had a separate backpack-mounted lead-acid battery.