GeoHot claims world's first unlocked iPhone
GeoHot (George Hotz) claims to have the world's first unlocked iPhone — in other words, it's no longer tethered to AT&T and can be used to make calls on another network using an ordinary SIM card.
The video shows GeoHot making a phone call using a standard T-Mobile SIM card in the iPhone.
His blog post reads:
Our group has agreed to release the method in one week. The current method involves taking apart your phone and doing some complicated soldering, with a high probablity of a bricked phone. Although after the phone is unlocked all the hardware can be removed. We hope to find a software unlock very soon. So in one week exactly from this blog post(thats less than the time it takes to ship a turbosim) we will release simple step by step instructions for unlocking, probably not even involving hardware. Sorry about the wait, but I assure you it will be worth it.
Who's betting Apple will find a way to disable this in their next update?
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