“Following quickly in the wake of the free iUnlock application published by the iPhone Dev Team, another coder claims to have developed a graphical interface based on the same code,” MacNN reports.
“Although it still requires a program such as iBrickr to ‘jailbreak’ an iPhone, users can then download and install the proper application, which should run through many of the steps automatically,” MacNN reports.
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iLove it!
Hopefully we can get REAL apps to work on the iPhone next.
Of course iWish there was more storage space…
friend of minie didn’t buy a new iMac, screen too shiny he says.
“friend of minie”?
Would that be mickey?
friend of minie didn’t buy a new iMac, screen too shiny he says.
iSad to hear that. I don’t much like them either, hopefully you directed him to the matte option in Macbook pro or a Mini or something.
Why unlock? From my understanding, you won’t get all the features from another service provider. If you did, I’m sure it will be slower than AT&T;which supposed to be built for the iPhone.
I would love an iPhone. Verizon dropped the ball on that one. I ahve too much tied into Verzion now so I’ll just wait.
So when you travel to another country you can buy a SIM and pay as you go as opposed to paying an arm and a leg and a kidney for international roaming.
There are lots of reasons to unlock the iPhone.
For people who travel overseas it’s better to buy a local SIM from a telco there than to use AT&Ts;roaming facility which charges excessively (have you missed the articles about $3K bills upon return?)
For people who *live* overseas, it means they can buy and use the iPhone, albeit unsupported.
For people who don’t like AT&T;- they can choose the provider they want.
It’s really all about choice.
Another day, another boring article about unlocking the iPhone and the dateless geeks who celebrate it…
For people in the US, they can unlock the phone and use it with T-Mobile.
For people in Canada, they can unlock the phone and use it with Rogers and pay $40-$60 a megabyte for data transfers.
iPod Touch, anyone?
“Would that be mickey?
It’s probably “no shinie mikie”.
The iMac screen is indeed shiny. But for 1200 smackeroos it is a steal.
My family absolutely loves our new iMac (base 20inch model).
When I consider that we paid $1300 for the original Bondi blue iMac (that we still use) it’s amazing.
Nothing in the Micros**t Matrix can touch it.
I’m am so @#$@#$ tired of hearing about the lack of real apps on the iPhone. The next major update to the iPhone will give everyone all they want. So calm down and enjoy what we gave you!
@XLM: Generally, it’s slightly more complicated than “pay as you go” internationally with a new SIM. You need to buy a prepaid SIM in increments set by the carrier. If you don’t use the prepaid amount, you lose the remainder.
That said, I had my pre-iPhone RAZR unlocked and bought a prepaid SIM that I used in Stockholm. It wasn’t cost-effective for the amount I needed to use it, but it was interesting and by far THE BEST cell service I’ve ever experienced. Land-line clarity on both domestic and international calls, quick connect times, and full signal strength everywhere I went.
thank you XLM.
How difficult is it for people living America & DON’T EVER leave America to understand this?
sheesh!
The next major update will likely give locks to corrupt all the good hax that are out. It will likely produce a more locked down than ever iPhone. It will make sure that people who pay hundreds of dollars for this crappy device only do what Apple allows them to do with THEIR phones, etc.
Face it.
The iPhone sucks. People rushing to buy this phone is as bad as all the nincompoops that rush to buy Windoze.
Will unlocking the phone let me use it with Verizon? I already have a Verizon account with work (they pay) and I would love to switch to the iPhone and keep the same carrier.
Graphical UI Beta?
“Please put $50,000 into this bag and abt natural, because I am pointing a gub at you.”
I don’t understand why ppl want to unlock the iPhone and run the risk of basically having a $400-$600 paper weight when Apple does an update. I say, if you want one, get it and deal with the AT&T;contract. If AT&T;doesn’t get good reception where you are, then you’re just SOL. It’s that way with a lot of other phones that are sold exclusively thru a single provider and you don’t seem to hear as much griping about them… of course, those other phones aren’t near as innovative, but still.
Of course, the iPhone is the only phone that’s ever made me wanna switch providers tho.
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As for the overseas travel (that’s prob the only ‘real’ reason imo to wanna unlock it), I’d say just use your old phone for that. Seems kinda backwards and dumb, and I wish I had a better answer for that. Hopefully all that will be dealt with in the near future. Perhaps when the iPhone gets to other countries?
“Hopefully we can get REAL apps to work on the iPhone next.”
@ iLove You
There are already a whole bunch of native third party apps running on the iPhone, and a beautiful graphical installer/uninstaller/updater that downloads and installs the apps over the web directly on the iPhone: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/
Also, Apple has publicly stated they won’t discourage hackers from writing and installing third party apps on the iPhone, although Apple won’t be supporting them. But at least we can feel confident that Apple won’t be releasing a firmware update that completely locks out third party apps.
By the way, for all those fellow Canadians, I can confirm that the iPhoneSimFree software works and I’m happily using my new iPhone on the Rogers network in Canada. You can read all about it on my blog: Art Of Geek
Happy iPhone hacking!
@Bob (and everyone else who wonders this)
There are two major standards (formats, if you will) for cell phone service: CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), and GSM (Global System for Mobiles, which I believe is a time-division multiplexed method).
Verizon and Sprint use CDMA; everyone else except NexTel uses GSM (NexTel uses iDEN, their own walkie-talkie-compatible method).
These methods are not compatible; therefore, unlocking your iPhone will only make it useful on another GSM carrier’s network, not Verizon nor Sprint.
Thanks for the answer. I guess if I want the iPhone I will have to go with AT&T;.