It seems I was entirely wrong about my speculation that the iPhone had no slot for SIM cards... it actually does; there has been a lot of confusion on the net with numerous reports about the issue (take a look at this as an example) but eventually the coast was cleared by a known authority in the geek world, David Pogue of the NY Times in his review of the iPhone. Click on the picture left to see where they have hidden (elegantly in Apple style) the SIM slot. It appears then that my other speculation was right indeed (you can't be wrong all the time, can you?). The spot that I identified as a potential container for a SIM card in the clip of the dudes who took the iPhone apart, is indeed the SIM slot after all. If you observe their handling of the phone as they demolish it and watch the clip carefully in comparison to the topology shown in the Pogue report you can see for yourselves that I was right on this part of the story (and not daydreaming as I initially suggested).Ooof! Now we can land and relax again, and be ready for our 'local' connectivity at the destination country before the aircraft touches the tarmac yet... Bless You, Your Jobsness !
(PS. I should have known better... for modern companies designing products for worldwide usage it's entirely unthinkable to create fundamentally different hardware versions of the same product... they always find ways to accomodate all features possible in one device even if a few of those features will be eventually unuseable in certain territories... to product designers it is much cheaper to add redundant components that can be (dis)activated by means of software than have different hardware designs. In the cellphone market, given that the rest of the world runs almost exclusively on the GSM standard and uses SIM cards, it is trivial to conclude that we were all fooling ourselves and wasting bandwidth... a total waste of space, time and gray matter... I should have known better...)
Γειράσκω αεί διδασκόμενος as the Romans would say...(transl.: getting old and still learning)
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