A company claims to be the first to unlock the iPhone so it can be used on any mobile operators network, without open the device case. It is a software solution you can buy on internet. Earlier this week we reported that GeoHot is succeeded to unlock the iPhone with a secret hardware hack which he promised to unveil after 1 week. But his 2th worlds unlocked iPhone he has thrown on ebay for the highest bidder. He keeps the first worlds unlocked iPhone for personal use ;-) Oke back to the software hack. The company with the name iPhone Sim Free claims there is a easier way to make the iPhone work on every providers network without physically open the phone case. The phone threated by this company would function in all countries with every operator. but they have not shown any evidence to proof their claim. Also it is not clear how much it would cost. Is it a HOAX or not? We will report you later when we the community finds out. So come back later.UPDATE: They really did it! according to our fellow bloggers (engadget.com), who comfirms with the following text, and we truelly believe our fellow bloggers because they know what they saw:
[engadget.com quote] Again: we can confirm with 100% certainty that
iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is
restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside
of the US. Read on for details and links to our video, and check out the gallery
of images below.
- Notes on the install
The unlock process took only a couple of minutes. From
our end it was totally painless.
Once you put your new, non AT&T SIM in
the device, you have to go through the usual activation process. This can, of
course, be done by anyone anywhere with the right tools (like iASign or iActivator)
We tested with an active T-Mobile SIM --
after the hack was finished and we reactivated we immediately got full bars and
the T-Mobile carrier info popped up in the top bar.
Everything is otherwise
the same, except the menu system now has a couple more options. The root menu
has Carrier settings where you can select your preferred network if you don't
want to roam.
The General -> Network menu now has an EDGE network
settings area where you can input your carrier's APN and username / password. We
put in our T-Mobile info, and were immediately online. (Apparently these hidden
menus were added in the 1.0.1 update, they tell us. How convenient!)
Visual
voicemail isn't in the cards -- sorry. That was, of course, to be expected
because it's a special AT&T network-specific feature right now. When you hit
the voicemail button you are taken immediately to your carrier's default
voicemail line though, and that works just like it would on any other phone.
Everything is confirmed as working on a non-AT&T network: SMS send /
receive, internet (including Safari, Mail, Google maps, etc.). YouTube doesn't
work out of the box, but that's to be expected. If you're not on AT&T you
have to manually activate YouTube -- here's the guide on how to do that. (YouTube is the only
app you have to activate like this.)
We know, it's kind of crazy, but this
isn't a hoax.
No, sorry, you can't have our unlocked iPhone. Restore /
upgrade resistance
The iPhoneSIMfree.com guys claim this method is restore
and upgrade resistant. We have no way of knowing whether Apple will be able to
disable this SIM unlock with future iPhone software updates, but we can confirm
that it is restore-resistant.
We performed a full restore (v1.0.2) on our
iPhone and successfully activated it using an inactive AT&T SIM.
After
fake-activating our iPhone, you merely pop out the AT&T SIM, put in the
foreign SIM of your choosing, reactivate, and you're done. "Boom," as Steve
might say.
Restoring from an iPhone backup in iTunes worked perfectly despite
the lock and foreign SIM. The only thing to notice was the phone number is now
listed as "n/a" in iTunes. Big whoop.
No, seriously. You can't have our
unlocked iPhone. VideoBefore you get in a tizzy claiming it's a faked video,
please note that:
We show the T-Mobile SIM at the beginning and end.
The
video stream does get cropped toward the end. That's actually just a crop to
make sure the phone number on the second iPhone isn't shown. No frames of the
video stream were removed, it wasn't a cut.
Just so you could be extra sure
it's real, we even left in the GSM radio noise.
Dude, you can unlock your
own iPhone soon, ok? You can't have ours.
And here is the video
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