Chris Leckness

The system does not work. It's built to defend companies interests but not consumers. If  you buy a phone you should be able to use it with any service provider. If you buy a song online, you should be able to play it in what ever mp3 player can play that file format. So, here you go. The iPhone can be unlocked now for free according to this news published in Engaget, page that tested the system to be sure that it works.

iUnlock, the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock app, was released to the underground just 74 days after the iPhone's release. Developed by the iPhone Dev Team, it's not (yet) for the faint of heart and it takes a little longer to do its magic than iPhoneSIMfree's method, but it works.

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Elrendhel

Interesting.

The program is made by the actual iPhone Developer Team, which says that it should work better than the iPhoneSIMfree application. That they acknowledge it is not for the faint of heart indicates that they accept their program is of a lower quality than a 3rd party application, which is scary to say the least.

And while (I believe) a 3rd party is free to create and distribute an unlocking program, for Apple iPhone Dev Team to release such a program will likely make them guilty of a breach of contract with AT&T. It could be that Apple wants out of the agreement now that they have a good possibility of buying the new FCC bandwidth coming due in 2009...

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