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Welcome to the Age of the Unlocked iPhone

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A working software unlock method for the iPhone has finally been released. This software has been in development by the company iPhone Sim Free, and after undergoing a long period of delays it is now available world wide. The soft unlock comes in the form of an iPhone application, which you must put on your phone and run. After running the unlock application, you may use your iPhone with a variety of GSM carriers provided you have a registered SIM card.

 

In order to unlock your iPhone, you must first purchase a copy of the IPSF software from iphoneworldwideunlock.com for $50 USD. The unlocking process itself is fairly easy to comprehend, although neophytes might find it time consuming to go through all of the directions. You can read about the first unlocks to be carried out worldwide at Gizmodo. There seems to have been some initial problems with the first revision of the application, but those have supposedly been resolved.

 

If any of you decide to purchase and run the IPSF soft unlock, please let us know how the process went for you! Also, early adopters beware! The open iPhone hacking scene has declared they will attempt to reverse engineer this software process and put out a free unlocker as soon as possible.

 

Source: TheInquirer

BREAKING NEWS: Scratch the above, a FREE iPhone soft unlock method has been created and confirmed according to Gizmodo. It appears that the requisite files are now online, and Gizmodo states a full tutorial will be written soon. Behold, the power of the scene!

UPDATE: It appears the file is an iPhone application. I would suggest following the IPSF unlock guide, but instead of purchasing their software just replace it with the iUnlock application. Below is a temp-file mirror for the application; full instructions will be posted when available. A prelinimary guide is now available.

 

UPDATE: The iPhone unlocker GUI application has reached mature status, and can now be obtained at one of the mirrors listed on either HaRRo's freeiphoneunlock site or below at unknown-files.net.

 

NOTE: The following Unlock.app has had its iUnlock module replaced with the latest one as instructed on HaRRo's site. You DO NOT need to download the latest iUnlock and replace it manually.

 

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CLiDE FTW!!1
2) What does apple think about it. Are they not going to support unlocked iPhones, release an ununlocking software update, or consider legal actions?

Well, my best guess is that the next software update, Apple will find a way to brick the free unlocking software, since they are obligated by AT&T...

 

And Apple Tech Support won't support it. If you want any sort of help, or even a replacement phone if it goes belly up (it happens alot with the iPhones), they'll make you restore the phone to Apple's firmware before they continue with the call.

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W00t, now I can finally get an iphone. And with the 4 gb model going for $299, I think that is a reasonable price. Plus with every competitor out their with an unlock app saying that this may not work with future firmware releases, no way was I gonna pay for it. Hence why the free approach which I know will be updated with new firmware releases, is what is needed. If you need to continue updating your software with no yearly fees from your customers, evantually the money you made from them to keep up the updates, is gonna run out sometime. Hence why the $50 and $100 prices for unlocking the iphone originally.

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GBK.Xscape
The 4Gbs has been discontinued... There's only 8Gbs..

True they have been discontinued, but what do you think apple is gonna do with all those extra 4Gbs lying around?

Why sell them of course.

Look in the clearance section of the apple store and you will find it there.

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True they have been discontinued, but what do you think apple is gonna do with all those extra 4Gbs lying around?

Why sell them of course.

Look in the clearance section of the apple store and you will find it there.

 

Exactly what I was gonna say. That's why on ebay their is alot of 4 gb ones that are cheaper now.

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True they have been discontinued, but what do you think apple is gonna do with all those extra 4Gbs lying around?

Why sell them of course.

Look in the clearance section of the apple store and you will find it there.

Apple Stores are complaining about the lack of 4GB models because customers are coming in with broken iPhones, and the Stores don't have any 4GB's in stock to replace the phone.

 

Some stores have been waiting for over a week for 4GB shipments from Apple.

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Apple Stores are complaining about the lack of 4GB models because customers are coming in with broken iPhones, and the Stores don't have any 4GB's in stock to replace the phone.

 

Some stores have been waiting for over a week for 4GB shipments from Apple.

 

If there are none left, does that mean they can get it replaced with an 8gb one for free? If so, woohoo :)

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If there are none left, does that mean they can get it replaced with an 8gb one for free? If so, woohoo :(

that has been my plan, i know that if you use an older ipod cable to charge the iphone it messes up the lower quarter of the screen's touch capability becuase it happened to both my brother and me and when we took it in to the apple store they said it was caused by the older ipod cables. My plan is to wait a month or two for the 4gb to run out and then start to use that older ipod cable and hopefully the iPhone will break and i will take it into the apple store at which point in time there will be no more 4Gbs left so they will have to replace my 4gb iphone with an 8gb iPhone. i know this sounds really risky but its worth it in my opinion, even if for some reason they do have 4gb left then it wont bother me to have a new iphone that isnt scratched up.

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that has been my plan, i know that if you use an older ipod cable to charge the iphone it messes up the lower quarter of the screen's touch capability becuase it happened to both my brother and me and when we took it in to the apple store they said it was caused by the older ipod cables. My plan is to wait a month or two for the 4gb to run out and then start to use that older ipod cable and hopefully the iPhone will break and i will take it into the apple store at which point in time there will be no more 4Gbs left so they will have to replace my 4gb iphone with an 8gb iPhone. i know this sounds really risky but its worth it in my opinion, even if for some reason they do have 4gb left then it wont bother me to have a new iphone that isnt scratched up.

 

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*Thinks about what I just read*

 

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that has been my plan, i know that if you use an older ipod cable to charge the iphone it messes up the lower quarter of the screen's touch capability becuase it happened to both my brother and me and when we took it in to the apple store they said it was caused by the older ipod cables. My plan is to wait a month or two for the 4gb to run out and then start to use that older ipod cable and hopefully the iPhone will break and i will take it into the apple store at which point in time there will be no more 4Gbs left so they will have to replace my 4gb iphone with an 8gb iPhone. i know this sounds really risky but its worth it in my opinion, even if for some reason they do have 4gb left then it wont bother me to have a new iphone that isnt scratched up.

 

Are your phones unlocked?

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CLiDE FTW!!1
If there are none left, does that mean they can get it replaced with an 8gb one for free? If so, woohoo :D

Yep pretty much, it happened to my buddy when he bought a 15GB 3G iPod... at the end of his warranty, the hard drive failed, and he got a 30GB 5G, lol.

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Yep pretty much, it happened to my buddy when he bought a 15GB 3G iPod... at the end of his warranty, the hard drive failed, and he got a 30GB 5G, lol.

yea same thing happened to my friend and his MacBook,his older intel core duo processor fried and they gave him a newer intel core 2 duo

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Oh, ok. so the iPhone can now be reprogrammed for any other cell phone provider then? If so, then coolies.

 

Yep, exactly why I plan to get the 4GB iphone since it's only $299 plus tax. That to me is reasonable compared to $599 and $499 when it first came out.

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Sorry to chime with a half off-topic but when I did a search with keywords "iphone without contract" it returned 17 pages of posts.

 

Is there a way to buy the iphone without the AT&T contract at all? I'm from Europe and I'm in the US this week. As you've guessed it, the idea is to buy it in the US (better price than in EU in any case I suppose), unlock it and use it with my Swisscom SIM.

 

Any hint appreciated.

cheers

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Sorry to chime with a half off-topic but when I did a search with keywords "iphone without contract" it returned 17 pages of posts.

 

Is there a way to buy the iphone without the AT&T contract at all? I'm from Europe and I'm in the US this week. As you've guessed it, the idea is to buy it in the US (better price than in EU in any case I suppose), unlock it and use it with my Swisscom SIM.

 

Any hint appreciated.

cheers

Well first of all you have to check and make sure that Swisscom is GSM, that is what the iPhone is. After that just stop at any Apple or AT&T store to pick it up. When you buy it you don't actually make the contract at the store and activate it there. All the activation is done at home or wherever you please. So if you buy it then you can just unlock it and then pop it you Swisscom SIM card and be set, if Swisscom supports GSM.

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Cheers mate, much appreciated. I thought you'd have to sign a contract in the store to be able to get the $399 price. That's how it's often done in EU countries. If you want to buy a mobile without contract you pay up to 100% more. Inversely, some mobiles are even free if you sign up for a certain minimum duration.

 

We may be one of the smallest countries in the world but of course we have GSM and 3G ;) Anything else is antiquity :D

 

So my idea should work. Wicked!

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Cheers mate, much appreciated. I thought you'd have to sign a contract in the store to be able to get the $399 price. That's how it's often done in EU countries. If you want to buy a mobile without contract you pay up to 100% more.

 

All iPhones sell at 100% of their price, Apple is not allowing any carrier to do any type of discount with any sort of contract deals last I heard.

Also, I don't recall the iPhone having 3G, which is a real shame.

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