2007年VOA标准英语-iPhone Modified for Any Mobile Service
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Washington
06 September 2007
The Apple iPhone
The very popular iPhone must be used with the not so popular cellular 1 network AT&T. People using other networks must break their contracts to switch to AT&T. That can cost up to $250. But a teenager has modified the computer code in an iPhone, freeing it from its corporate 2 master and letting it work with other carriers. VOA's Todd Grosshans has more.
Apple advertisements read: "There's never been an iPod that can do this.
17-year-old wiz kid, George Hotz
No there certainly has not. The iPhone, the most hyped mobile phone ever, has been hacked 3 by this guy: 17-year-old-George Hotz, making the phone potentially usable on networks all over the world. "It's very technical, and it requires opening up your phone, soldering 4 a wire, the two points, and then running some software that I wrote, putting your iPhone back together. Inserting any sim card that you want, and then just using it."
It can cost over $200 to get out of a contract with a cell phone company and switch to another. So people pining for an iPhone but stuck with, say, a T-Mobile contract, are out of luck unless they pay the penalty fee. In this case, Hotz placed a T-Mobile SIM card, a small chip that identifies a phone to a network, in an iPhone. Voila...This was a high tech feat 5 using some low-tech tools.
The trick to opening the iPhone case -- there's an official Apple case opener tool -- guitar picks. "Some guy told me," explained Hotz, "that when we first started, when I first got the iPhone, 'Hey dude, to open it up, just slide a guitar pick right in there.' Sure enough, pops right open."
A mobile phone repair company in Kentucky gave Hotz a car, a Nissan 350z, for his hacked phone. CertiCell says they bought the phone as a piece of cell phone history and has no plans to commercially market the phone or its reworked software.
- She has a cellular telephone in her car.她的汽车里有一部无线通讯电话机。
- Many people use cellular materials as sensitive elements in hygrometers.很多人用蜂窝状的材料作为测量温度的传感元件。
- This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
- His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
- Care must be exercised in attaching the lead wires to the soldering tabs. 在往接线片上焊导线时必须非常小心。 来自辞典例句
- I suggest posing me with a soldering wand over my head like a sword. 我想让自己这样像把剑一样把电焊杆举过头顶。 来自电影对白