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Posted by Monty Solomon on November 4, 2007, 1:33 am
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Basics
Locked vs. Unlocked: Opening Up Choice
By CYRUS FARIVAR
The New York Times
November 1, 2007
NOKIA, the world's largest maker of cellphones, has been running ads
that read, "Open to Anything" and "Unlock your potential."
The company wants cellphone buyers to know that its phones can be
used with whatever carrier they choose, unlike a certain other phone
that has been getting considerably more attention lately: Apple's
iPhone. That phone is locked, meaning it is intended to be used with
AT&T, the only carrier Apple chose in the United States.
A Nokia spokesman says that the advertising campaign is not aimed at
the iPhone. "A lot of people interpreted it as a shot at another
product," said Keith Nowak, a Nokia spokesman. "It wasn't its
intention, to be honest."
Indeed, most phones sold in the United States are locked into the
carrier that sold them. Nearly all mobile phone providers discount
the price of the handset in exchange for a fixed contract. But even
some phones sold at full price without contracts remain locked.
But that has not stopped many from unlocking phones, either with the
permission of the carrier or, as is more commonly the case, without
it. Apple said that nearly one of every six iPhones sold in the
United States was bought with the intention of unlocking it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/technology/personaltech/01basics.html
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