Is the Uber iPhone still around?

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reg barclay

Discussion Starter · Jun 12, 2018

Anyone remember the Uber iPhones back in the day? You have to be a super 20 percenter to remember them. IIRC in the early days of Uber it was only available on iOS, and Uber had iPhones that drivers rented for a certain amount per week. I can't remember if you could use your own iPhone or if you had to rent them.

Anyway does the thing still exist, or has it been done away with, since Uber's long been available on Android and everyone seems to use their own phone today anyway?

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reg barclay

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jun 12, 2018

ftimmy said:
I'm almost ashamed to say I've been doing this long enough to remember that. I assume it's no longer an option.

It was a requirement, you could not use your own phone. It cost $10 a week. It sucked when you took a week off from driving to see that you were starting the next week $10 in the hole. It was also completely locked down to the point that it would do nothing but run the driver app. The texts and calls between driver and passenger didn't even come through it, you still had to use your own phone for that. If you wanted to use Google Maps or Waze, then you had to use your own phone for that.

Thanks for the info. Looks like I just missed out on all that then. When I first started they sent me one in the mail, but by that time they'd just started allowing other phones, so I used my own and returned it.

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