For those of you readers who have been curious, here is the canonical list of carrier logos installed directly on the iPhone. I know we've bandied about a bunch of carrier names here at TUAW. And, yes, it's easy enough for Apple to change its mind as negotiations go on and just do a software update to add or change logos and/or carriers. Leaving all that aside, at this time, the built-in carriers appear to be Cingular/AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. Each logo appears in two files in /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app, as Default_CARRIER and also FSO_CARRIER using a non-standard png encoding.iPhone reveals carrier logos
For those of you readers who have been curious, here is the canonical list of carrier logos installed directly on the iPhone. I know we've bandied about a bunch of carrier names here at TUAW. And, yes, it's easy enough for Apple to change its mind as negotiations go on and just do a software update to add or change logos and/or carriers. Leaving all that aside, at this time, the built-in carriers appear to be Cingular/AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. Each logo appears in two files in /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app, as Default_CARRIER and also FSO_CARRIER using a non-standard png encoding.
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7-16-2007 @ 2:49PM
Pete said...
This is more likely for when you're roaming on someone else's network. Like on my old Treo, when I went to canada, and was on Roger's Wireless' network, the Cingular symbol would change to say "Rogers"
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7-16-2007 @ 3:20PM
macinbot said...
Yawn! Old news.
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7-16-2007 @ 3:31PM
aptmunich said...
@Pete
Nice theory, but there's only 4 roaming partners in there - and none of them are the one's you would expect: No canadians but Vodafone (who don't even operate in North America under that brand)?
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7-16-2007 @ 3:52PM
Klemens said...
Yeah, this was on Engadget like two weeks ago...
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7-16-2007 @ 5:09PM
frumin said...
I was roaming with the iphone last week across Europe and it doesn't need special logos to display carrier names.
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7-16-2007 @ 7:13PM
Yawn said...
I can't even come up with a funny comment. This is so sad that the news is several weeks old...
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7-16-2007 @ 9:07PM
mayo said...
Is it possible to get a TUAW feed that will exclude specific TUAW bloggers?
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7-16-2007 @ 9:39PM
south said...
will you weenies stop complaining? maybe 'old' news is annoying to you but what irritates me the more are people who take up comment space complaining about TUAW and individual writers.
and damn, i've just done it myself so i'll shut up now.
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7-16-2007 @ 9:54PM
Ben the Dog said...
If you did read it on Engadget, then congratulations for you, I'm very proud of you. Now STFU and go away.
Not everyone has the time to read 25 different sites on Mac news every day. If you've seen it before, move on and read something else instead of making childish lame attempts to be funny.
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7-16-2007 @ 10:09PM
mayo said...
@Ben the Dog: who said mac sites? Even yahoo and AP or some other mainstream news outlet picked up on this quite some time ago. I'm very sorry you didn't see this before, but just because you or two other people didn't, doesn't justify mindless rehash of old news.
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7-16-2007 @ 10:58PM
Ben the Dog said...
As I already said, move on and read something else. If people think TUAW is so bad, I don't really understand why they keep coming back.
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