http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/top/iphone-100-unlocked-using-turbo-sim-card-289148.php
Posted on 08/24/2007 8:57:13 AM PDT by Brujo
A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone's cellular technology.
While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.
... it seems likely that a small industry may spring up to buy U.S. iPhones, unlock them and send them overseas.
... "I don't want people making money off this."
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Hotz collaborated online with four other people, two of them in Russia, to develop the unlocking process.
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Hotz' blog: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/
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(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
So true. Anyone who is interested probably should snarf a copy of the how-to before it disappears off the web forever.
No the only thing that kept them afloat (Apple) was bribing hollywood types and selling MP3 players...
Apple could make an absolute killing if they allowed big OEMs to install their OS on computers other than a mac, a mac is now simply a hardware locked Intel PC... hardware locked as in it uses a finite amount of hardware to reduce complexity as in they only need to make their software work with a handfull of components.
It’s all about control with apple, Jobs is a complete control freak...
Itll never dissapear because it can just be hosted outside the US
It reminds me of Steve Job’s college pal that learned how to get the free long distance from AT&T with the old Captain Crunch whistle.
Not where I live-As far as coverage goes, it's the only game in town.
Generally they are pretty good.
Good enough to sell their service with deliberately crippled cellphones with features other networks give away.
They did lose a class action over it, not that they care in the least. Everyone got a nickel, the lawyers got a yacht, as usual.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/top/iphone-100-unlocked-using-turbo-sim-card-289148.php
I don't know about that—hordes of flying monkey lawyers could descend anyway and cause havoc!
(Disclaimer: I actually know two or three lawyers who are not members of any flying monkey horde. Maybe they're exceptions. ;-)
I have not seen any Iphones here, but I am not looking.
T-mobile is trying hard, but still second to Orange in Slovakia.
I'm pretty sure I heard a Kim Komando minute last week say that there is a non-advertised, pay as you go plan, like Tracfone.
I was only half listening, as I'm not in the market to get rake financially as a early adopter.
Good for him! Corporations should just accept competition and quit trying to enslave the people who just want to buy gadgets from them not commit their lives to them.
I’d never buy one just for that reason.
Anything made by man can be either duplicated or cracked.
I agree. I’m just a country boy who is stupid enough to believe that when I pay for something that I can do with it as I damn well please.
As a rule, you don’t any own software. You pay to have the right to use it, not to own it. Software is licensed and not sold.
Fair enough, it’s his hardware, he bought it. But I hope he doesn’t expect to get out of the early cancellation fee on his AT&T contract.
GE, do you think this is an illegal hacking activity?
Yep.
Someone builds a better mousetrap,someone builds a better mouse.
You would fit right in with Make, a magazine for tinkerers and HW hackers. Their slogan is “If you can't open it, you don't own it!”
If it's up there in one place it will never disappear off the web forever. www.webarchive.org is a wonderful place.
Has anyone ever not been able to find the information they wanted online?
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