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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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solaar
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.

That's cool with me as I suppose the iphone will be priced outside North America as if all other countries are 50-80% richer than the US, looking at other Apple products... ;)

 

Missing 3G is a bit of a bummer but quite honestly I've used 3G services perhaps twice in two years and I don't think I'll really miss it for the next two years.

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DarkLord7854
Missing 3G is a bit of a bummer but quite honestly I've used 3G services perhaps twice in two years and I don't think I'll really miss it for the next two years.

 

It's a phone after all, I don't really mind the speed

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DarkLord7854
What's it doing (or not doing)? I just swapped my SIM, updated the firmware with iNdependance, Activated, installed SSH, Jailbroke and uploaded the unlocker app.

 

I had forgotten to swap the SIm aparentely, however now I'm stuck at making it allow me to use the SIM, I got to the home screen and installed iUnlock, but the iBrickr app was sposed to install something so I could download/install the following:

  • Community Sources
  • OpenSSH
  • BSD Subsystem

And it didn't show up, no matter how many reboots I did, so now I'm stuck because iUnlock doesn't wanna run *sigh*

 

Edit:

Got it operational, kicks-arse :(

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CLiDE FTW!!1
Missing 3G is a bit of a bummer but quite honestly I've used 3G services perhaps twice in two years and I don't think I'll really miss it for the next two years.

Yes, it is too bad. The iPhone is a 3G capable phone. It was AT&T's idea to go with EDGE because of bandwitdth issues, cost, etc.

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Q : soo i can use the iphone here in Puerto Rico? i mean like get on att and use iUnlock and the iphone instead of the other phones?

because the iphone is not coming here until wayyyyyyyyy tooo looongggg... haha :D

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GBK.Xscape
Yes, it is too bad. The iPhone is a 3G capable phone. It was AT&T's idea to go with EDGE because of bandwitdth issues, cost, etc.

It actually wasn't AT&T's decision to go with EDGE instead of 3G, it was Apple's decision to go with EDGE.

Here is a quote from a Q&A with Steve Jobs at yesterdays iPhone release in the UK.

 

 

Engadget-

Why not 3G networks?

 

Steve-

The 3G chipsets are real power hogs. Handset battery life cuts power to 2-3 hours." Yeah yeah, we've heard it before. "Our phone has a talk time of 8 hours and that's really important when you want to use your phone for internet and music. 3G needs to get back up to 5+ hours, something we think well see later next year. ... WiFi is way faster than any 3G network. Energy efficient EDGE with better, faster WiFi. That's why we chose it.
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DarkLord7854
I have unlocked 7 iPhones today. Typing this from an just unlocked iPhone.

An they rock. Plus I can type pretty easily I these.

 

Typing is really easy on them indeed, just wish T-Mobile prices for Edge were cheaper :huh:

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solaar

Any tutorial on how to unlock it from a Mac?

I downloaded Unlock.app(latest).zip but the file in there gives me an error 'you cannot open application Unlock because it is not supported on this system.'

 

I'm on a Macbook 10.4.10.

 

Even if this file worked, do I still need to go through all the steps in the tutorial posted in the link in the original post? If I got it right it was all for Windows.

 

Any clue appreciated.

cheers

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DarkLord7854
Any tutorial on how to unlock it from a Mac?

I downloaded Unlock.app(latest).zip but the file in there gives me an error 'you cannot open application Unlock because it is not supported on this system.'

 

I'm on a Macbook 10.4.10.

 

Even if this file worked, do I still need to go through all the steps in the tutorial posted in the link in the original post? If I got it right it was all for Windows.

 

Any clue appreciated.

cheers

 

Install bootcamp + windows?

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When Apple does come out with a 3g phone and I can get an unlimited data plan with my cell phone service provider, I can get skype on my phone, then I'm paying skype the $30 a year to get skype unlimited. Then I can call anywhere in North America. That will be sweet. I'd mainly use the phone just to receive calls then. That is my dream. Let's hope Google gets that 700 MHz spectrum, then we can kiss the cell phone service providers goodbye and the power of the internet will really shine then.

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DarkLord7854
When Apple does come out with a 3g phone and I can get an unlimited data plan with my cell phone service provider, I can get skype on my phone, then I'm paying skype the $30 a year to get skype unlimited. Then I can call anywhere in North America. That will be sweet. I'd mainly use the phone just to receive calls then. That is my dream. Let's hope Google gets that 700 MHz spectrum, then we can kiss the cell phone service providers goodbye and the power of the internet will really shine then.

 

Funny... My GPRS connection to the net hits 200kbs/s easily and it's only 6$ a month :)

 

Don't get what the big fuss over 3G is

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