Fully SIM Unlocked iPhones
Engadget posts confirmation that iPhoneSimFree can provide a software application that will completely unlock the iPhone, allowing you to use other mobile network's SIM cards.
Engadget posts screenshots and notes from the install. Some highlights:
- The unlock process took only a couple of minutes
- The General -> Network menu now has an EDGE network settings area where you can input your carrier's APN and username / password
- No Visual Voicemail. (but regular dial in voicemail works)
- The method claims to be restore and upgrade resistant
It appears iPhoneSIMFree will start selling this application next week.
SIM Unlocking the iPhone will allow users to use other GSM-based mobile networks with the iPhone. For U.S. customers, this limits you to simply switching to T-Mobile from AT&T, but international customers now have much more flexibility and could use the iPhone on any GSM network.
The six-man team has been working non-stop since launch day, and they're officially the first to break Apple's SIM locks on the iPhone. It's done. Seriously. They wouldn't tell us when and how they would release it to the public, but you can certainly bet that they'll try to make a buck on their solution (and rightly so).
Engadget posts screenshots and notes from the install. Some highlights:
- The unlock process took only a couple of minutes
- The General -> Network menu now has an EDGE network settings area where you can input your carrier's APN and username / password
- No Visual Voicemail. (but regular dial in voicemail works)
- The method claims to be restore and upgrade resistant
It appears iPhoneSIMFree will start selling this application next week.
SIM Unlocking the iPhone will allow users to use other GSM-based mobile networks with the iPhone. For U.S. customers, this limits you to simply switching to T-Mobile from AT&T, but international customers now have much more flexibility and could use the iPhone on any GSM network.
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58 months ago
It will be very interesting to see if Apple Legal puts a stop on this...and if so, on what legal grounds.
58 months ago
Funnily enough.... I just saw this story a moment ago:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8R7FOD00.html
Who's really "the first" ???
Interesting prospect, in either case....
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8R7FOD00.html
Who's really "the first" ???
Interesting prospect, in either case....
58 months ago
Wow. This appears to be much more desirable than the soldering method AppleInsider has been reporting. Who would want to crack open something that expensive and put a soldering iron to it?
58 months ago
Pretty sweet! I'm excited to see what the program will cost. I don't think that visual voicemail and some service over EDGE is necessarily worth giving money to the evil AT&T (AT&T does a lot of evil things like extending your contract without telling you, and they have a terrible customer service dept. with no interest in helping people).
T-mobile is by far the most customer friendly national U.S. carrier.
T-mobile is by far the most customer friendly national U.S. carrier.
58 months ago
That's good news. I'll watch it for a while (through the next update) and if the unlock is unaffected then I'll probably do it. I already have a T-Mobile account, so I'd come out ahead paying the termination fee to AT&T and using the iPhone as my TMob phone.
And being able to use local SIMs with the iPhone when travelling will be great.
Thank you, iPhoneSIMFree. You deserve to make a few bucks off this. :)
And being able to use local SIMs with the iPhone when travelling will be great.
Thank you, iPhoneSIMFree. You deserve to make a few bucks off this. :)
58 months ago
From the article, it seems like a lot of the functionality required for the iPhone to work on other carriers such as EDGE settings and automatically routing voicemail functionality to a non-visual source (T-Mobile, for instance), has been there since the beginning.
58 months ago
This is awesome. Although I still can't justify spending $599 on a phone I wouldn't use. I barely use my cell phone now as t is.
58 months ago
YES YES YESSSS!!!
I m hopping literally!!!! WHEEEE
sorry if i seem stupid but , you know what the changes are that apple gets the iphone to venezuela?
So this is the only way i can actually get it!
I m hopping literally!!!! WHEEEE
sorry if i seem stupid but , you know what the changes are that apple gets the iphone to venezuela?
So this is the only way i can actually get it!
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