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 used in the Orange iPhone. CEO Didier Lombard is quoted ... continued »
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Euro iPhone unlock options grow
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 used in the Orange iPhone. CEO Didier Lombard is quoted ... continued »
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Official T-Mob Germany iPhone unlock hints at future hacks
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.
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1.1.2 SecPack Found
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.
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Hackers set ambitious sights on UK iPhone
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, fuelled by pricing significantly higher than their US counterparts are ... continued »
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Revirginizer tool restores bricked iPhones
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 via most methods to a state ready to play nicely ... continued »
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Unlock source code for iPhone/iPod Touch released
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.
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250k unlocked iPhones according to Apple estimate
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 the 1.4 million that we sold where people had bought ... continued »
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