iphone4 Volume Cap?

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Does the iphone 4 share the same volume cap as UK sold ipods?

I was planning on importing an ipod touch which would be free of the annoying EU imposed volume cap.

Now thinking of a pay as you go iphone 4, but concerned it may also have a cap on its output volume?
 
Not sure if it's capped, but my iPhone 4 would make your ears bleed on full volume, don't think you need to worry about not having it loud enough.
 
Thanks for the responses guys. These are high impedance phones so thats what concering me.

Any else able to confirm for sure?
 
Does the iphone 4 share the same volume cap as UK sold ipods?

I was planning on importing an ipod touch which would be free of the annoying EU imposed volume cap.

Now thinking of a pay as you go iphone 4, but concerned it may also have a cap on its output volume?

It is not a device cap, it is a EU legislation on a product wide cap on all EU products.
 
I know Raymond, but on most devices theres a user selectable work around. I.e. with Cowon or Sansa, simply selecting a different region within the MP3 player's settings eliminates the decibel cap imposed by EU law (courtesy of the French I believe).

The cap is essentially applicable to any music player sold within the European market. However Apple are the only manufacturer to strictly impose this with no easy work around. They have not however considered how it affects their customers with high impedance earphones or those linking to a docking station/car stereo.

I've owned Ipod touches in the past and have always imported a non-EU model. The difference in volume output is like night and day.

However with the iphone, I wasnt sure if it had the same cap as the Ipod models, as its sold as a phone and not an MP3 player, so was rather hoping it was immune to this big-brother EU imposed law.
 
But even if you import your iPod, won't a software update totally reset that??

I was concerned with that myself the first time around, but I can 100% say it doesnt. All firmware updates/syncs from iTunes do not overwrite the volume.

This "cap" must be a command line in another file separate to the firmware, or the firmware update that iTunes issues must be the relevant JAP/USA one.

I know people have tried to update EU ipods with USA/JAP fimrware but strangely it doesnt remove the volume cap, at least with last year's/this years iterations.
 
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