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Unlocking Your iPhone 3GS? [Updated]

July 4, 2009 Advice

The quick answer is NOT YET! now possible. Yes there is the USB snoops method documented at iPhone Dev Team’s blog, but it is risky. There is also the George Hotz method, purplera1n, which is not the comparatively safer version from iPhone Dev Team version. Though the iPhone Dev Team did release a video of their unreleased tool unlocking [...]

Should Carriers Have Exclusivity on Handsets

June 20, 2009 Opinion

Jarrett Rush of The Dallas Morning News posted the short post in the Opinion Blog of the newspaper web site titled, Should AT&T be allowed to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier?. This sparked 65 comments on the newspaper web site, several hours ago it made it to the front page on Digg, which collected 191 more [...]

iPhone Running 3.0 Now Jailbreakable & Unlockable [Update]

June 20, 2009 Hack

Thanks to the dedicated hard work of the iPhone Dev Team, the iPhone running iPhone firmware 3.0; released on Wednesday, is now jailbreak able. For the layman, jailbreak is the hack to enable the iPhone to run Apple unauthorized 3rd party applications on your iPhone. Note: Personally I have less and less of a reason [...]

iPhone 3G Unlock from iPhoneDev Team Arrives

January 2, 2009 Hack

Yesterday, I reported that we did not see the anticipated iPhone 3G unlocking application from the iPhoneDev Team, The iPhoneDev Team finally released their highly anticipated tool to software unlock the iPhone 3G. Initially there was a 0.9 version but they quickly released an enhanced version (0.9.1) which fixed several bugs that prevented some users [...]

Video of iPhone 3G Unlock

December 22, 2008 Hack

Member of the iPhoneDev Team, MuscleNerd, posted a video of him unlocking the iPhone 3G from his Mac. The layman version is expected to be release on New Year’s Eve 2008. Fortunately, people who lives in Hong Kong, Belgium and Taiwan do not need this unlocking method, as those iPhone 3G sold are already officially [...]