I still don't believe iPhoneunlocking.com has unlocked any iPhones. After iphoneunlocking brought the news on their cheapo 50$cent website that they were called and warned by US lawyers representing AT$T. Today they published a youtube stream to proof that they do have developed software to unlock the iPhone. The funny thing is, the focus of the recording is so so bad (the whole 6 minutes out of focus?!) on that video, that you cannot read any details what the guy with the british accent is doing. It could be an person with an british accent somewhere in the USA, who is showing us an ordinary AT$T iPhone. I don't say it is a HOAX but don't tell me this on you blog: quote iPhoneunlocking.com: "Sorry about the focus, it was done late night using a Nokia N95, but you’ll see the process."
iphoneunlocking.com has put the start of selling their remote unlocking service on hold after the company received a telephone call from a US law firm this morning. Well that is the story of iphoneunlocking.com, the quote on their cheapo 50$cent website states "After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination. The company is taking legal advice to ascertain whether AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal action." Another firm we reported last friday Iphonesimfree.com will offer their unlocking services next week. Fact is that Iphonesimfree.com has verified their software unlock by an independent blogger and iphoneunlocking.com did not proofed anything yet. Is it a hoax or what? Does iphoneunlocking.com has an unlock solution and did the AT$T lawyers really called the company or is it just imagination? We will wait for the outcome.
A company claims to be the first to unlock the iPhone so it can be used on any mobile operators network, without open the device case. It is a software solution you can buy on internet. Earlier this week we reported that GeoHot is succeeded to unlock the iPhone with a secret hardware hack which he promised to unveil after 1 week. But his 2th worlds unlocked iPhone he has thrown on ebay for the highest bidder. He keeps the first worlds unlocked iPhone for personal use ;-) Oke back to the software hack. The company with the name iPhone Sim Free claims there is a easier way to make the iPhone work on every providers network without physically open the phone case. The phone threated by this company would function in all countries with every operator. but they have not shown any evidence to proof their claim. Also it is not clear how much it would cost. Is it a HOAX or not? We will report you later when we the community finds out. So come back later.
UPDATE: They really did it! according to our fellow bloggers (engadget.com), who comfirms with the following text, and we truelly believe our fellow bloggers because they know what they saw:
[engadget.com quote] Again: we can confirm with 100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com's software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US. Read on for details and links to our video, and check out the gallery of images below.
Notes on the install The unlock process took only a couple of minutes. From our end it was totally painless. Once you put your new, non AT&T SIM in the device, you have to go through the usual activation process. This can, of course, be done by anyone anywhere with the right tools (like iASign or iActivator) We tested with an active T-Mobile SIM -- after the hack was finished and we reactivated we immediately got full bars and the T-Mobile carrier info popped up in the top bar. Everything is otherwise the same, except the menu system now has a couple more options. The root menu has Carrier settings where you can select your preferred network if you don't want to roam. The General -> Network menu now has an EDGE network settings area where you can input your carrier's APN and username / password. We put in our T-Mobile info, and were immediately online. (Apparently these hidden menus were added in the 1.0.1 update, they tell us. How convenient!) Visual voicemail isn't in the cards -- sorry. That was, of course, to be expected because it's a special AT&T network-specific feature right now. When you hit the voicemail button you are taken immediately to your carrier's default voicemail line though, and that works just like it would on any other phone. Everything is confirmed as working on a non-AT&T network: SMS send / receive, internet (including Safari, Mail, Google maps, etc.). YouTube doesn't work out of the box, but that's to be expected. If you're not on AT&T you have to manually activate YouTube -- here's the guide on how to do that. (YouTube is the only app you have to activate like this.) We know, it's kind of crazy, but this isn't a hoax. No, sorry, you can't have our unlocked iPhone. Restore / upgrade resistance The iPhoneSIMfree.com guys claim this method is restore and upgrade resistant. We have no way of knowing whether Apple will be able to disable this SIM unlock with future iPhone software updates, but we can confirm that it is restore-resistant. We performed a full restore (v1.0.2) on our iPhone and successfully activated it using an inactive AT&T SIM. After fake-activating our iPhone, you merely pop out the AT&T SIM, put in the foreign SIM of your choosing, reactivate, and you're done. "Boom," as Steve might say. Restoring from an iPhone backup in iTunes worked perfectly despite the lock and foreign SIM. The only thing to notice was the phone number is now listed as "n/a" in iTunes. Big whoop. No, seriously. You can't have our unlocked iPhone. VideoBefore you get in a tizzy claiming it's a faked video, please note that: We show the T-Mobile SIM at the beginning and end. The video stream does get cropped toward the end. That's actually just a crop to make sure the phone number on the second iPhone isn't shown. No frames of the video stream were removed, it wasn't a cut. Just so you could be extra sure it's real, we even left in the GSM radio noise. Dude, you can unlock your own iPhone soon, ok? You can't have ours.
iphoneunlocking.com has put the start of selling their remote unlocking service on hold after the company received a telephone call from a US law firm this morning. Well that is the story of iphoneunlocking.com, the quote on their cheapo 50$cent website states "After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination. The company is taking legal advice to ascertain whether AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal action."
