Our brethren over at TUAW have determined that if you take out the iPhone’s SIM card, it will work as a mini Internet tablet and iPod. Of course all that neat stuff like visual voice mail won’t work.
A commenter at GigaOm explains how to do this, and more importantly, why:
To match the iPhone WITHOUT it's Phone features active, you'd have to pony up $800 not to mention add an extra pound or so of additional gadgets.
[via Cult of Mac]
I've been grousing ever since the iPhone was announced. Gimme that thing, rip the cell phone hardware out of it and put in a hard drive to make the ultimate iPod/sub-sub-notebook computer.