UNLOCK ANY PHONE including the latest iPhone 3g
your phone. No software, no cables , no future costs. Simply place between phone and sim card.
Their solution claims to unlock your iPhone for use on any network including 3g data. You simply place the Any-Network sim onto the back of your existing simcard, insert into your iPhone and away you go, your iPhone is unlocked. New software upgrades can be obtained from iTunes as normal without the need to unlock again.
The Any Network Sim currently costs £22 and can be delivered worldwide. We haven’t tried this ourselves so if anyone has any experience of this we would love to know.
More details can be found here.
Ok so Apple just announced the new 3g iphone. Blah, blah new features, GPS, it’s faster, thicker (that’s what she said), and now replacing the 1.0 iphone. Yep thats right. Apple is no longer selling and manufacturing the 1st version of the iphone. Apple stated 1st gen iphone manufacturing stopped at 6 million. What does this mean right now? No iphones are for sale right now and the new version will be available July 11th.
This time around you will have to purchase and activate IN STORES only. I guess the whole in home activation thing got kind of nuts with the DIYers. I can only imagine how many of those 6 million phones are unlocked and being used overseas. I believe last time I heard AT&T only activated (correct me if I’m wrong) less than half of that number.
Well for all of you wondering if you will be able to unlock this new phone just as easily, the answer is most likely yes. When Apple released the SDK for the firmeware version 2.0 for the iphone the hacking began. Soon the news broke that 2.0 had been unlocked and relocked and unlocked again.
Update: These guys @ http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ have released an app for win/mac that jailbreaks the 3g iphone as well as allows you to install unapproved apps on the iphone. The tool will jailbreak and unlock a 1st gen iphone with 2.0 installed. But for those of you with any other service you will have to wait just a little longer.
And if you really what to go crazy try this.
Sellers of unlocked iPhones are about to go out of business.The revised terms of Apple’s agreement with carrier AT&T will make buying an iPhone with the intent of unlocking virtually impossible.
Those who buy the iPhone 3G will need to purchase a service contract with AT&T before leaving the store. Apple will not allow customers to buy an iPhone online. And those who do not activate their iPhone within 30 days will face an as-yet-unspecified penalty.
After hackers cracked the iPhone last summer, unlocked iPhones became an industry unto itself. Some domestic customers unlocked iPhones for use on T-Mobile’s network (the only other domestic network compatible with the iPhone).
But many more iPhones became part of a substantial international grey market. People bought iPhones online without purchasing a contract with AT&T, unlocking them and shipping them outside the United States for sale to eager customers in dozens of countries.
In September Apple tried to stop the unlocking with a software update that “bricked” unlocked iPhones, resulting in a backlash from irate customers and negative media coverage. The incident bruised Apple’s customer-friendly public image and probably left CEO Steve Jobs seeking better options.
Not long after that ugliness it became apparent most of the phones were going to countries in which Apple had no deals with carriers, generating sales the company wouldn’t otherwise have had. Apple policy quietly shifted to unofficial toleration of unlocked iPhones.
Until this week, anyway.
Now Apple has contracts with carriers in over 70 countries, all of which are preparing to sell the new iPhone 3G. A large and active grey market in unlocked iPhones no longer serves Apple’s interests. Apple needed to make it go away, and quickly.
Apple’s bricking strategy apparently has yielded to a method much harder to defeat: the terms of the AT&T service contract.
Simply canceling the contract with AT&T after the iPhone purchase would seem a workable tactic. Adding the lower cost of the new iPhone ($199) to the $175 fee for canceling the contract and the initial $40 activation fee brings you to a total of $415, just $16 more than buying the original iPhone without a contract.
But according to a Computerworld article, AT&T will require the return of the iPhone before it cancels the contract.
So if you really want to own an unlocked iPhone, you’ll face no insurmountable technical barrier. But since you’ll be paying full freight for AT&T’s service, you’ll have gained little.
As an advocate for Apple selling unlocked iPhones for a premium price alongside carrier-subsidized locked iPhones, I’m disappointed Apple decided to choose this path. I understand the strategy behind it, though.
To sell much higher numbers of iPhones, Apple knew it needed to drop the price. The only way Apple could sell the iPhone for significantly less money was to have AT&T subsidize it. You can bet AT&T insisted on the airtight restrictions in the contract terms to ensure it would get the monthly fees needed to cover that subsidy.
Apple will sell more iPhones, AT&T will make more money and customers will pay more while losing what little hope remained of someday being able to use a carrier of their choosing.
And while on the subject of pricing, the long-term cost of the iPhone 3G will exceed the original’s since the minimum service fees with AT&T will run at least $10 per month higher.
With a two-year contract, that’s $240 — $40 more that the $200 price cut you’ll get with the new subsidized iPhone. If AT&T charges more for text messaging as some suspect (monthly fees start at $5), the discrepancy could be more severe.
Furthermore, AT&T is the one reaping all the extra dough, not Apple. Another part of the companies’ new agreement ends the revenue sharing of the monthly contract fees. (Apple will continue to collect fees from existing iPhone contracts, however.)
So not only will AT&T collect more from each customer every month, it gets to keep all that money for itself.
It appears the revolution the iPhone supposedly had brought to the phone maker-carrier relationship has crumbled prematurely.
PwnageTool 2.0.1
Well, the response was overwhelming. 
The downloads brought down several of our servers, and some of them have yet to recover!
It seems that some people have been having problems with our initial release, so we have PwnageTool 2.0.1 for you. It addresses the following issues:
- It auto-finds the bl39 and bl46 files better, if they’re on your computer
- It creates the ~/Library/iTunes/Device Support/ folder if not present, which should help with some 1600 errors people have been having.
- Many people have reported the PwnageTool not starting up at all (the icon never stops bouncing). This issue should be resolved now.
- The Sparkle AppCast URL is fixed in this version, so automatic updates should work for future releases.
Because of the AppCast URL fix, we recommend that everyone who downloaded PwnageTool 2.0 get this version, if they want to stay up to date automatically.
N.B: if PwnageTool 2.0 pwned your phone correctly the first time, you do not need to pwn again with 2.0.1.
The file can be found on _BigBoss_’s repository, or at our friends at Hackint0sh. If you choose to download it from other mirrors, you may want to verify that the SHA1 of the file is 10b6c7dc22286e7b70c3d5a92cda7d117426fda9.
Here’s the updated status info from ziphone.org:
Beta 7
System disk name: BigBear5A331.M68OSSystem disk key: 3d9a9832a108fc5084fc9329d6e84e38edf06e380554c49376b70e951f8a8d1ed943f819
Baseband version: 04.05.04_G
Baseband status: patched and unlockediPhone 3G baseband firmware prefix: ICE2 version 1.43
user root and user mobile still have “alpine” as password.
ALL CARRIERS SUPPORTED AS OF NOW:
Carrier Country
ATT US
Claro ar
One at
TMobile at
Optus au
Telstra au
Vodafone au
Mobistar be
Claro br
Fido ca
Rogers ca
Orange ch
Swisscom ch
Claro cl
Comcel co
TMobile cz
Telia dk
Claro do
Porta ec
EMT ee
Telefonica es
Sonera fi
Orange France
TMobile Germany
Vodafone gr
Claro gt
Hutchison hk
Claro hn
TMobile hr
TMobile hu
O2 ie
BhartiAirtel in
Vodafone it
TIM Italy
Softbank jp
KTF kr
Omnitel lt
LMT lv
TMobile me
TMobile mk
Telcel mx
Claro ni
TMobile nl
NetCom no
Vodafone nz
Claro pe
Globe ph
Orange pl
TMobile pl
Optimus pt
Vodafone pt
Claro py
Orange ro
Telia se
SingTel sg
Orange sk
TMobile sk
Claro sv
O2 UK
Claro uyPosted by Zibri at 9:21 PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Waiting…
At the moment I’m waiting for 2.0 to be released and the 3G iPhone to be in my hands.
Stay tuned for further updates.
Things will probably change again but this shows that hackers are keeping up pretty well. The cat and mouse game continues!