waitingforiphone.com has confirmed reports that newly purchased iPhone 3Gs from Apple and ATT stores in the US will be partially provisioned (or bricked) to only support E911 services when they leave the store, and a second activation step through iTunes will be required to fully activate the phone. In order to reduce the gray market for iPhones and force customers into contracts to pay for carrier subsidies, all iPhone purchasers will need to be ‘pre-qualified’ at time of purchase.
“It’s going to slow down sales a bit compared to last time, and we’ll have to open the box. Some customers aren’t going to like that,” said an unnamed ATT retail employee who asked not be named for this article.
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