Second iPhone software unlock promised tomorrow
By Sean Cooper 
posted Aug 24th 2007 4:00PM
posted Aug 24th 2007 4:00PM
The iPhone is getting used and abused today with a second software-only unlocking solution making itself known. Uniquephones has now surprised with word that it will be offering a downloadable software unlock service between 12 and 2 PM EST tomorrow at iphoneunlocking.com. Pricing will be somewhere between $25 and $50 with a 25 to 50 percent discount for people who have already signed up for the service -- apparently as many as 450,000 already have.Read - iPhone Unlockers Lining Up
Read - iPhoneunlocking.com (not active until tomorrow)
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It works and it's free.
now for me to steal someones iphone!
finally can use it with my tmobile w00t!
Tomorrow is today and looks like we are not there yet uniquephones allegedly received a phone call from a Silicon Valley law firm and they are backing down, for now.... No release today maybe a deal is in the making between Apple/ATT and uniquephones to scuttle the project but I may be wrong.
Wait a couple days and save yourself the $25.
Still no flash, cut&paste or any of the other 20 features that any other free phone has.
Sweet! Where can I get myself a free phone with a built-in iPod? I'm ready to go get one right now!
"Enga-diddy" when when they release the torrent file so I can download it... oh my bad... gotta wait until someone get the balls to put their purchased download up for seeding... No problem I can wait.
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can you use a pre existing phone plan
its kinda confusing to me
do i get a new phone number or what
If you have a different carrier, no you don't have to. You just have to insert the sim card to iphone.
I say, pay the money! Developers/hackers work their butts off, testing phones and whatnot, while the masses sit and wait for the "free unlock".
Good work deserves compensation.
If these guys were the ones who did all the work behind the hacks I'd agree but not when Open Source Hackers do all of the work and these guys swoop in and profit off of it.
Boycott them.
As far as we know, there are no open source software unlocks. That means there is original code to their programs as well as original ideas. Pay programmers for their hard work.
By your argument, you could say RedHat just swooped in and profitted off Linux.
evenSong, it seems unlikely that they haven't built on the shoulders of the open source hackers, indeed, they would have been stupid not to.
@ Hedge
I agree with you. You're absolutely right.
Heh, some company stealing and profiting off of hard work of open sourcers.
Hmmmm... smells like CherryOS all over again.
Too bad Verizon doesn't use sim cards...
oh contraire
too bad you use verizon.
I will be the first in line as Richard A. they have worked there backsides off and quite right they should get paid for it
So could I buy an iphone and make it work on my verizon network?
Nope - the iPhone runs on GSM networks, and Verizon is a CDMA network.
I have the plan already :)
this is HUGE!
Nice. Did you learn to communicate like that in your undergrad, or graduate level English class?
Question, when I buy the Iphone, say a refurbished one from Apple which are 399 now or 499 for 8gb, do I have to sign up with ATT first then use the sim card of my tmobile? Doesnt the phone need to be activated first?
No you dont need to sign up for a plan, for the activation you have to use iActivator
AYLE thanks. Thats 350 dollar saving on ETF for me for two phones, great!
@Bob
http://digg.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_shit_and_so_is_your_face
Asshat.
For those who missed it - it's a quote from Maddox's page.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Can someone please clarify this for me?
I'm visiting the US in September and have no address in that country. After I buy an iPhone in the Apple Store can I use this without talking to AT&T at all and simlply slot in my Orange SIM?
Wow... I am an asshat. i wish I had time to keep up with the phrases that change every ten seconds on the web. oh well.
all your base... etc,etc,etc...
i wonder what Apple/AT&T has to say about this..
Neil Christie => I have the same question... I live abroad and I just want to be sure that we don't actually need to take a AT&T plan to buy the phone...
I wold not be surprised if somehow this was swung by Apple to get their phones in use by non-AT&T users.
Cant wait to get my hands on an Iphone now...
Oh man that stupid kid that's going to all the networks in the NYC area bragging about how he cracked the iPhone is going to get served with a lawsuit from Apple pretty soon. Isn't this reverse engineering? Didn't Apple take Real Networks and their Rhapsody for making their stuff compatible with the iPod or something?
I'm a bit indifferent to the topic because I don't own an iPhone and don't have any plans to buy one or change my carrier. But, just to make a point, either Apple's or AT&T's lawyers are going to come out of their moisture-filled caves and take someone to court. It's just a matter of time.
2 hours only. Just enough time for people to realize it's a SCAM. Software only unlock of a hardware component, yea right.
Preregister = reduce server load during the critical scamming time.
400k * $50 = 20M take, for a few hours work, and a couple weeks of hyping it up.
Keep your money.
So there is no loss except you gotta hack the youtube feature?
and this fully supports roaming?
2 things keeps me back
1) The European version might have new features, when it arrives
2) The text messaging will only have an english dictionairy
This is the only "real" problems that holds me back from buying an iphone right now
These guys have been claiming that they were testing a successful iPhone unlock since shortly after the iPhone was released (and building up their page rank in the process). I have my doubts.
If they do start offering unlocks in the next few days I'll have to suspect that they are wholesaling the work of the iphonesimisfree group.
Just because it says T-Mobile in the corner doesn't mean it is unlocked. It could simply be roaming on T-Mobile, right? Did Engadget get any proof other than the screen shots?
I love how the iPhone buyers are being treated like convicted
criminals by Apple.You pay $600 for a device that you will never
really own (unlock and use how you wish.)
And what about the
Canadians? While the US and now EU being treated to the iPhone,
Canadians don't even get to see the product. The only downside to all
this is that the sheep that are Apple fans will pass the blame onto
AT&T for everything rather than blame their good buddy Steve who just
raped every one of them. Shame on you Steve, shame on you. The hell's
deepest inner circle awaits your arrival.
(Full disclosure: I am an
AT&T employee who owns 3 iPods, a new SR LED Macbook Pro, a Quad Mac
Pro, a Vista media center, an XP laptop, a "Hackintosh" tablet PC,
and an 8525/TyTn phone so I can't see myself as being labeled a
particular "fanboy".)fanboy".)
Did anyone notice the "Netwerk" in the screen shots? WTF is that?
The name of the Engadget/iPhone simfree guys' WiFi network.
The fact that so many people want to have their iphones unlocked doesn't bode very well for ATT. If I were in management this would be a dilemma. The number might not be significant being that ATT doesnt really make that much money off iphones but still . . . . ..
Did you guys see this?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294437,00.html
So, some group of guys works since the iPhone launch to unlock it, and then this kid supposedly does it in a couple of hours. BS. I'm sure that this kid just followed the instructions based off the hard work of others, then he gets on the news about it. What a tool.
I hate his 'fro, too. Makes me wanna smack him.
umm, George Hotz == geohot, the author of the hardware hack featured here on engadget. He is one of the "group of guys" who've been working on it, and they say as much in the story. The "two hours" quote in the article refers to how long the actual process took, he's quoted elsewhere as claiming to have spent 500 hours on the project.
iphonesimfree and iphoneunlocking are almost certainly standing on the shoulders of the open source unlocking effort, but geohot is one of the good guys.
Wow. I stand corrected. And man, kids these days.. only 17 years old?? I expected a more mature group of coders working on this for some reason.
Impressive.
Another software: http://www.dvdtoiphone.net/unlock-iphone.html
The iPhone unlock Toolkit software is very safe, fast and easy-to-handle. Just click on the 'Unlock iPhone' button, the process will be completed AUTOMATICALLY within a few seconds. Now, you own a unlocked iPhone, which can enable you playback movies and music (the best widescreen iPod) and use the browser (Wi-Fi). SIM-card phone unlocking function will be added in October or so.
Uh that isn't a program to unlock the phone.. simply a way to bypass activation it looks like. Their simply leading people on and trying to get them to sign up for their SIM unlocking in October. Totally bogus comment!
Except that the program you link to just activates the iPhone, it doesn't do a SIM unlock.
how do i install software to my iphone ?
with itunes , without... how?
can you help ??
I am going to guess that if you do this unlocking i would not update the iphones software. Apple is bound to release software that disables this. so if you do do this be very carefull about updating the phone.
SPAM! If you check the site you'll notice the blog now says they won't be unlocking anything and if you have questions to "ask AT&T"...meaning they either are doing something illegal & are being sued by AT&T or don't have the knowledge to even unlock a door.
Sweet! Where can I get myself a free phone with a built-in iPod? I'm ready to go get one right now!
From their blog:
"Update
August 25th, 2007
It is now 12N EST – the time when we said we would be offering iphone unlocking software to our customers.
We have the software. It works. And we are ready to go.
Seems AT&T is a bit annoyed at the idea. A middle of the night phone call from a Silicon Valley law firm is slowing down the release of the software to you.
Stay tuned."
All of these "unlocks" only allows your phone to work on T-Mobile. That's it.
Who cares, really? Are there that many people who REALLY would rather use T-Mobile than AT&T?
Wake up, and upgrade to a REAL network.
HTC > Iphone. All there is to it.
He learned to communicate like that here on Engadgets forums. All hail the biggest pool of flamers ever! (Winks at engadget)
All Apple products are queer and overpriced. Put a flower in your ear, rev up your VW bug, and slap in some Indigo Girls, ladies. Ipods suck, Iphones suck, and Itunes ESPECIALLY sucks. Maybe they could unlock the iPhone and hand it to me so I could smash the POS. F Apple. Go eat some Igranola.
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SO WHERE IS THE FIX THEY PROMISED WITH 4 DAYS AGO ON THE 24TH AT 12N?????? ANY IDEA ANYONE????
The lawyers are a scare tactic. DCMA protects technology that protects copyrighted material, ie. content. The technology being circumvented is protecting hardware so DCMA is not applicable, but the lawyers will still try to scare the hell out of you. Someone has to have the balls to call thier bluff and stick them (ATT/Apple) with the legal bill in the end. That's the cost of having your bluff called.
Lastly, this is why all you republican techies should understand the dark side of the free market and the need for some regulations to benefit the consumer. Your cell phone bill could be half it's current cost to you if REAL COMPETITION existed. Only in the US will you see an open system from Europe, ie. GSM, locked down to meet the restrictive needs of the big telcom corporations, as it the case with the Iphone.
well i'll pay the damn crack for their hard work! just release it already! my iphone sit on my desk for paper weight! My blackberry is still smilling! hahaha
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apple & at&t vs hackers. apple & at&t, know actactly what they have to do.
visit the two web sites.
Apple: 'Unlocking' software damages iPhone.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3645846&page=1
Apple Issues a Warning to Users of iPhone Hacks. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3644871&page=1
Can you show me how to get rid of the "E" on the network of AT&T, please? Or if you have any softwarez that can hack or reprogram so I cannot get the network from AT&T.
Thanks for your time