Re: iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

In article <1187983912.331822.185610@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you,
> but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right
> in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone
> with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.

And how do you make a call on the unlocked unit again?

In article <URN.Idiot-581839.14210924082007@news.verizon.net>,
Ura Dippschit <URN.Idiot@idiots.com> wrote:

> In article <1187983912.331822.185610@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
> AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to
> > you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made
> > possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM
> > unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over,
> > guys.
>
> And how do you make a call on the unlocked unit again?

According to the articles in more reputable press outlets, the unlocking
process requires both soldering skills as well as software skills (so,
possible to toast your iPhone and certainly voiding the warranty). The
owner of the unlocked phone was able to use it on Verizon. The process
has been posted to the team leader's blog.

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

>According to the articles in more reputable press outlets, the unlocking
>process requires both soldering skills as well as software skills ....

There are now both hardware and software hacks announced:

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../08/24/1858252

--
Chris,

In article <timmcn-750D6B.18375324082007@news.iphouse.com>,
Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:

> According to the articles in more reputable press outlets, the unlocking
> process requires both soldering skills as well as software skills (so,
> possible to toast your iPhone and certainly voiding the warranty). The
> owner of the unlocked phone was able to use it on Verizon. The process
> has been posted to the team leader's blog.

And how does the visual voicemail act?

In article <fanujc$cmu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
Chris McDonald <chris@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../08/24/1858252

Is there any indication that he/they have also hacked the web
side? Otherwise, I don't really see the big whoop, except from the "I
can do it" bragging rights standpoint.

In article
<kurtullman-68414B.21255124082007@032-478-847.area7.spcsdns.net>,
Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any indication that he/they have also hacked the web
> side? Otherwise, I don't really see the big whoop, except from the "I
> can do it" bragging rights standpoint.

Yes. Full functionality except for the visual voice mail, since that
requires special carrier support, so if you use an unlocked iPhone on
some other carrier, voice mail just takes you to the normal voice mail.




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--Tim Smith

In article <michelle-5ED8B7.23144624082007@news.east.cox.net>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article
> <kurtullman-68414B.21255124082007@032-478-847.area7.spcsdns.net>,
> Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../08/24/1858252
> >
> > Is there any indication that he/they have also hacked the web side?
> > Otherwise, I don't really see the big whoop, except from the "I can
> > do it" bragging rights standpoint.
>
> What is there to hack on the web side?

Didn't know, that was one of the reasons I asked. I am not
aggressively ignorant, more passively so (g). Someone earlier in the
thread suggested that they did not know if the reliance on EDGE for
webside functionality was going to mean that the webside wouldn't work.

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in news:timmcn-
750D6B.18375324082007@news.iphouse.com:

> In article <URN.Idiot-581839.14210924082007@news.verizon.net>,
> Ura Dippschit <URN.Idiot@idiots.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <1187983912.331822.185610@l22g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>> AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > It's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to
>> > you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made
>> > possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM
>> > unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over,
>> > guys.
>>
>> And how do you make a call on the unlocked unit again?
>
> According to the articles in more reputable press outlets, the unlocking
> process requires both soldering skills as well as software skills (so,
> possible to toast your iPhone and certainly voiding the warranty). The
> owner of the unlocked phone was able to use it on Verizon. The process
> has been posted to the team leader's blog.

Took a GSM phone and used it on a CDMA carrier? Highly doubtful.

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.mac.system.]
On 2007-08-26, witfal <nospam@all4.me> wrote:
> On 2007-08-25 18:01:45 -0700, Scott <how.do@you.do> said:
>> Took a GSM phone and used it on a CDMA carrier? Highly doubtful.
>
> Not gonna happen. The hack was to T-Mobile, another GSM company.

Yesterday I cycled over to the nearest T-Mobile shop to replace
my contract phone. It took a while and I mentioned the T-Mobile
iPhone hack to the woman woking there. She didn't seem to have
heard about it but said something like "we are going to start
doing iPhones after Christmas". Since the shop was in the UK and
there is no AT&T network here(?), I assumed that meant they would
be supplying iPhones with T-Mobile SIM cards.

Ian

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Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/