“A company that unlocks cell phones in Europe said it is close to having an application that will allow customers to unlock their Apple iPhones so they can use SIM cards from carriers other than AT&T to activate the phones,” Elizabeth Montalbano reports for IDG News Service.
“In an interview this week in New York, John McLaughlin, founder of Belfast, U.K.-based Uniquephones, said he has engineers working around the clock in several countries who are close to cracking the complex security system Apple has set up to ensure customers can only use iPhones with AT&T Wireless service,” Montalbano reports.
“The race by hackers to unlock iPhones has been on since the phone was released last Friday. Currently, AT&T Wireless has an exclusive deal with Apple to provide service for iPhones, and customers must agree to a two-year service plan with the company. However, customers have complained that the carrier’s wireless service is slow, and according to McLaughlin, there has been tremendous interest in the ability to unlock the phone,” Montalbano reports.
Montalbano reports, “By Sunday night, he said, more than 150,000 inquires had come in through the Web site he set up to request IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers from customer iPhones. While not everyone would volunteer their IMEI numbers, they still expressed interest in learning how to unlock their iPhones, McLaughlin said.”
Full article here.
Locking cellphones is *illegal* in many European countries. So Apple has a problem. Then, linking the iPhone to one carrier *is* the antithesis of capitalism and free trade. Apple has here a socialist approach.
Parasites…
“Unlocking cell phones is not illegal.”
No, but you may be in breach of your cellular contract.
In America cellphone are sold using the “razors and razor blades” model. The razor is cheap, and you keep paying for the blades. There’s nothing illegal or immoral about selling a cellphone cheap with bundled service, and making sure that the phone is only used with that service.
And verily it came to pass that the Jobs looked upon the cellular networks. And He saw the AT&T and He saw that it was good. So verily the Jobs said unto his chosen people, thou shalt have the iPhone and thine iPhone shalt work only with AT&T. For Those who wish their Cellphone to work with TMobile are evildoers. Their blow up dolls shall become unreceptive to sexual advances, their mothers shall throw them from their basements, and they will be doomed to not attend another Star Wars convention for all the days of their lives.
And the people looked upon the AT&T and saw that it was good.
the iphone should have been brought out sim free! if you wanted to buy a new car and was told that you were restricted to buying fuel from a specific retailer and not any other retailer would you buy that bloody car ! i think not , steve jobs has made a big big mistake with this one .
Here’s a video of the 17 y.o. kid that started it all that I found on Webcastr
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Or just grab this URL to watch the video of the 17 year old hacker that cracked the iPhone hack code being interviewed on US television.
http://webcastr.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=27&id=594
People deserve very good life and loan or short term loan can make it much better. Because people’s freedom bases on money state.