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Soon it may be harder to sell stolen cellphones
05-07-2012, 05:51 PM
What that will do is keep you from placing phone calls and texts through a service provider.
There are apps that let you do the same thing though free wireless hotspots, avoiding having a service provider at all. You'll still be able to watch videos, read email, and do anything else that a laptop does. Not that big of a barrier, really.
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Soon it may be harder to sell stolen cellphones
05-07-2012, 06:12 PM
Is this block in effect internationally? I could see phones just being shipped overseas for resale.
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Soon it may be harder to sell stolen cellphones
05-07-2012, 06:14 PM
Also at least for some phones their IMEI could be changed (through hacking).
