So this is considered as hardware unlock?

This is a true unlock. The phone will be fully unlocked after this. No additional hardware modification needed.

Bell has a policy that does not reps to sell phone with out having the phone attached to a plan (new or existing)
however, if you are lucky, you can find reps who are willing to bend the rules

discounts depend on the length of the contract. (1,2,3 year) any contract must have data. otherwise, no discount will be added.

the vibrant being a non blackberry must have a smartphone combo plan ($50+) or a voice plan (consumer or corporate) with data as a feature.

Here is the original thread for the Vibrant unlock on XDA Developers.

^ Does that go the same for all dealers? Or is that just the Bell store?

And that's why I'm not with bell. hahahaha.

I'm definitely committing to this phone on Rogers.

Has anybody started shopping for accessories yet?
I'm looking for a case as it's done wonders for my Cowon D2 DAP.

Ideally I'd be able to find something like these:

http://translate.google.com/translat...foriph_SP.html

or



Anybody have some suggestions?

the guy with sketchy site just put out an app on the market that will unlock ur phone. costs $10. i may be getting my galaxy s today :)

^ Im Jealous.....

Dammit Rogers!!! Hurry the hell up!

samsung event is wednesday
hahaha
somethign coming
its just a training launch..

Why would you pay $10 for it when you can do it for free?

Sweet case. Too bad they only make cases for mainly Apple phones.

You guys could also go across the border and just buy an AT&T Captivate if you're willing to pay full price. I was pretty tempted to buy a captivate when I was down at Fry's.

So torn between all these phones. Vibrant seems to be the better of the two, but its on Wind.

Source?
Can't seem to find any info on the rogers site at all.
The Captivate launch page still looks the same.
I wanna be in the first batch of Captivate upgrades.

TOS'd,
The Vibrant is on Bell too, not just wind.

I think he works for Rogers?

There are two vibrants, the Bell Vibrant (Rogers/Fido 3g) which looks exaclty the same as the original Galaxy S (i9000) and the T-mobile vibrant which is the Wind compatible one. Does anyoen know whether these 2 have the exact same dimensions? looking to buy a case soon

It should be the same as long as both Models are named Vibrant.

According to Engadget article
the T-mobile can be used on AT&T 3G network once it's unlocked

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/22/c...r-phone-vibra/

darthchilli please let us know ASAP when you have ANY information!!!!!!!

I want this phone by the time I go to the Excited States of America on the 28th!!!!!

i can almost say that this phone wont launch this week..or wednesday
its the middle of september..its just a training launch event like the x10..in which i might not even go

Yeah, from what everybody has mentioned, we are looking at a mid september launch.

I'm not sure where I heard it, somehow, it's been planted in my head to expect launch/stock on the week of the 13th.

If you want one just buy a bell vibrant and follow the steps in the xda unlock thread. Worked for me using it on rogers right now.

How is reception? And how slow is the data?

I actually don't like the look of the Vibrant - too "iClone" of a look for me.

Are the unlocks for these software independent? that is... if I upgrade to 2.2 down the road would I have to re-do the unlocking process?

I havent had it out very much but no signal issues so far (im in a basement with full bars). it says it has hspa and im getting 4.7 mbps on speedtest vancouver server which is what i was getting before.

edit: 6.1 mbps on bellingham server

you can change the launcher to w/e you want and even uninstall touchwiz. i doubt the code will have to be reentered as its put on the sim, if you change sims im sure you will have to reenter the code.

I'm sure it was mentioned earlier but I can't find it. What is the difference between Vibrant and Captive, in terms of network. I'm a phone noob but I thought Bell runs on HSPA whereas Rogers is GSM.

rogers is most definately hspa, i think gsm refers to the cell phone network itself hspa is the data side (correct me if im wrong)

only diff between vibrant and captivate is captivate lacks the front camera

for those that have a vibrant right now, are u guys using any cases? if so, which ones and whered u get them? I've called various places and none of them have any cases for the galaxy s yet. Bell has cases, but their prices are stupid ($30 for snap on cases). I could order for much cheaper on ebay, but dont wanna wait for shipping.