It seems as if all the iPhone dev teams are adding everything Apple forgot, maybe that was their plan, but this time Suavphisticated from ModMyiFone has created a MMS application for the iPhone. The application is currently in heavy development with lots of bugs. This is only the first beta version released and the dev team is still in progress ... continued »

Update: 15% of iPhones were sold on non-iPhone specific service plans, while 5% were sold unlocked Orange, who are Apple's carrier partner in France, have revealed that of the 30,000 iPhones the sold in the first five days it was on sale there, 1,500 were unlocked.  While 80% of customers took out one of the carrier's special iPhone plans, 15% chose a more generic option ... continued »

It was the challenge many hoped would see an increase in availability of unlocked iPhones, but today the courts decided in favour of T-Mobile Germany and gave them permission to continue selling the Apple handset locked to their network.  The case - brought by spurned rival Vodafone, who claimed that the exclusivity deal broke anti-competition rules - had resulted in ... continued »

After speculation that France Telecom would offer an iPhone unlocking service for around €100, the official word from the carrier has confirmed that customers choosing to buy the handset after its launch this evening will have the option of either an iPhone-specific plan, a generic Orange plan or of buying the phone completely unlocked.  As in other countries with the ... continued »

One week after T-Mobile Germany unveiled their plans to sell an unlocked version of the iPhone for €999, in doing so satisfying an anti-competition ruling engineered by Vodafone and prompting a flurry of interest in what could prove to be an alternative unlock method, comes news regarding France Telecom's intention to offer more flexibility as to which SIM can be ... continued »

The first hands-on reports are coming in from buyers of the iPhone in Germany who have splashed out the full €999 asking-price for an unlocked handset.  It turns out to be a typically Apple-streamlined process [translated], although if you were hoping to buy the phone and then flaunt it with an alternative SIM straight away you'll be disappointed.   continued »

According to the iPhone dev team, a SecPack has been extracted from firmware version 1.1.2 making it possible to re-flash the baseband of the phone after it has been unlocked. This means that unlocking software can now revirginize your phone with 1.1.2 and bring it back to it's original state before unlocking the phone. continued »

Many months after the handset's US launch and mere days from becoming available in the UK, the iPhone's chastity is under threat already from ambitious hackers who aim to unlock the handset from sole network O2 "within hours" of it going on sale.  It's an ambitious sign of the ambivalence some users are feeling toward both Apple and their UK partner, ... continued »

It's full-on innuendo time around the internet today, as the plucky iPhone Dev Team release their Revirginizer which promises to take your bricked iPhone back to pristine, innocent Apple goodness.  Intended to help out the many people who unlocked their iPhones and then found them to be broken when they attempted to upgrade to firmware version 1.1.1, it should restore handsets unlocked ... continued »

If you've been itching to get elbow-deep in the iPhone/iPod Touch unlock code and have a good rummage around to see what's going on - or if you'd like to use it as a learning tool, and maybe help out with future exploits - then head over to Toc2rta where Chris has released the source code for their unlocking tool.   continued »

An unlocked, third-party software capable handset is always going to be desirable, but exactly how many buyers obtained an iPhone with the express intent of ditching AT&T?  Apple is putting that figure at around 18-percent of the total handsets sold. "We don’t know precisely how many people are doing that [unlocking iPhones], our current guess is there is probably 250,000 of ... continued »

In another “WTF?” move from Apple over the weekend, they lowered the number of iPhones that you can purchase at one time from 5 to 2 per person. So let me get this straight, they dropped the price by $200 in a very short time and pissed off all the early adopters and said that it was so they could sell ... continued »