The iPhone Dev Team has released AnySim, their GUI application to unlock the iPhone. This should make the free software unlock practical for a wider audience than their original command-line solution.
If you are eager to buy a new iPhone and use this unlock hack because you are a T-mobile customer in the US and still on contract, or because you are outside the US, I’d hold off for a little while. It is very likely that Apple will release an iPhone update within the next few weeks when they roll out the mobile version of the iTunes store, it may even come as soon as this Tuesday, when they are expected to announce European iPhones. That update, or any other could relock the iPhone and break existing unlock software. What’s more, there is no telling how long it will take people to create new unlocks. You may be in the position of either having an iPhone you can’t use at all, or an iPhone you can’t update with new features. I’d suggest waiting a few weeks to see what happens. Ok, you have been warned. Have fun.
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You’ll need a tool like iBrickr (for Windows) or iFuntastic (for Mac) to install the app on your iPhone.
Apple is teasing early adopters with hints of an update to version 1.1.1 of the iPhone firmware bearing new features. This sneak preview shows up in the screenshots that Apple provides to help people who bought their phones before last weeks price cut find their phone’s serial number so they can claim their $100 rebate.
The new features include a setting for the Home Button. This likely brings a UI feature from the iPod Touch to the iPhone. On the iPod Touch, the user can double click the home button to call up the music controls even when the device. I hope the iPhone implementation will let me get to the phone function faster on my iPhone.
The second feature hinted at is a menu for International settings. Some people suspect this will allow users to choose to enable or disable voice and data roaming when traveling abroad to avoid large phone bills like those that have recently received a lot of press coverage.
It also shows a major version update to the modem firmware, which could create big problems for people with unlocked iPhones, since they depend on a hacked modem firmware. The current version is 03.14.08_G. The new version appears to be 04.02.04_G.
Also interesting, the model is given as MA712LL. Current 8GB iPhones are just MA712.
Interestingly, the screenshot of the home screen doesn’t show the iTunes music store icon, which could mean this is an interim release, with another to follow soon. More likely though, the screenshot of the home screen is an older version.
Thanks to the observant “Jaysun” on Howard Forums for seeing what was right in front of so many of us today.
Newsflash: There is now a GUI application for unlocking the iPhone. It remains to be seen whether the next software update will break these unlocks.
Apple has announced how early adopters can get their $100 iPhone rebate in response to demands for refunds after they cut the iPhone price by $200 last week.
Apple is calling a press conference in London next Tuesday, which has some speculating that they are going to announce their European iPhone partners.
Apple calls on UK press as iPhone talk swirls - Yahoo News
Apple, whose slick, touch-screen device combines its popular iPod music player, a video player and Web browser, is expected to hand a UK sale deal to Spanish Telefonicas O2 UK unit, a German deal to Deutsche Telekoms T-Mobile and a French deal to France Telecoms Orange.
Apple declined to divulge details about the planned news conference in London, and an Apple spokesman in Germany said only that the company would announce which telecoms operators had clinched the sales deal by the end of September.
The iPhone Dev team has posted a step by step guide on how to unlock your iPhone using their free unlock software. An easier to use GUI unlocker is on the way. There have been earlier versions kicking around, but they haven’t been carefully tested. If it were me, I’d wait for the next release.
Another set of instructions
Update: There is now a GUI application for unlocking the iPhone that simplifies things greatly.
