Quoting "Tim Connors" <tim.w.connors@gmail.com>:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi all,
one of my colleagues had a very funny "vendor lock-in" on an iPhone.
It was completely frozen, just a pretty brick (with his girlfriend's picture on it, and 7:14, the time when it stopped working, like on an old broken watch) - and there was no reset button, no switch-off, and being different as Apple is, you cannot remove the battery either.
Thankfully an iPhone does not last that long without charging. So after few hours the battery went flat and he could use it again.
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves".
But alas, a simple google search reveals there are probably ways around it: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/18/iphone-troubleshooting-how-to-restart-quit-fr...
Try googling with a frozen phone;-) Cheers Peter