I have grown increasingly skeptical about iPhone SIM Free’s claims of having a software unlock for the iPhone once they started taking pre-payments and then started pushing back the release date. However, they are promising they will start distributing the unlocks to wholesale customers tomorrow, so we’ll soon see if they are the real deal.
They are only selling the unlock through 3rd party retailers, not direct.
If you are going to be retailing selling the unlock software, or unlocked iPhones, send me an e-mail about getting a mention on this site. We get a few thousand people a day on this site, and most of them have been Googling for an iPhone unlock.
Update: There is now a GUI application for unlocking the iPhone that simplifies things greatly.
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This morning, GeoHot has posted a step by step tutorial about how to unlock an iPhone for use on a non-AT&T GSM carrier (ie T-mobile in the US, and pretty much every European carrier via the hardware method he reported on a few days ago. The whole thing is documented step by step in his blog, and in this YouTube Video.
Geo says this is his iPhone hacking swan song, since he is heading off to college in a couple of days.
It’s now up to others to simplify and clarify how to perform the hardware hack, and, ultimately, to come up with a software-only method for doing the unlock.
In the meantime, I’m sure there are finally people offering to unlock iPhones for a small fee who can actually deliver, now that other people have done the pioneering work.
He is actioning off the unlocked iPhone he used in the video. The price is already up over $1,500
Good luck folks, I look forward to the software unlock.
Update: There is now a GUI application for unlocking the iPhone that simplifies things greatly.
