I used this YouTube vid below. To my surprise, it’s not like iPods of the past, where the face “holds” everything and the back is just a shell. In the case of this device, the face holds about half the guts, and the back shell holds another 50%.

I had started down the wrong path by seperating the silver bezel from the black shell. It was a bit of a battle and didn’t feel right, even though I was successful at breaking the seal around the entire bezel.

At that point I turned to the Google for the real scoop. I was entirely wrong about where the break was to be. To my surprise the video showed the break happening between the glass and the metal bezel. I would have never thought of that.

The suction cup worked perfectly. My girlfriend’s 3G is now working again. It was 100% dead. No idea what I did, but like many electronics surgeries, just opening it and noodling around solved it. I suspect it was a tiny connector that had come off its mate.

Now that Apple and AT&T have squeaked out of the [iPhone Gen. 1 revenue sharing] deal, what’s holding the two companies together? Certainly some would say that it’s that oft-mentioned exclusivity agreement the companies signed, but I don’t know of one person who actually read the thing and no one really knows if Apple can get out or not.But if I had to take a guess, step one in getting out of its contract with AT&T revolved around the revenue sharing deal. And before you know it, Steve Jobs’ latest blockbuster may be on other carriers.

It may be hard to believe right now, but rest assured that the chances of AT&T and Apple no longer working with each other are greater than you might think. Cnet

This would be a 200-mph blast of fresh air into the iPhone Equation, especially after widespread news that the iPhone Gen. 2 will be locked to AT&T’s network. Having a choice of 2, 3 or more carriers to marry your iPhone to would bring down prices and offer new services. It would be mobile device nirvana.