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iPhone SIM Free announces 1.1.1 SIM Unlock, iPhone Unbricking
tuaw.com — Following up on the iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak, iPhone SIMfree -- they are the commercial unlock folks -- have announced a 1.1.1 upgrade and a 1.1.1 unlock solution. Moreover, they believe their unlock solution will restore and repair iBricks.
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- OS2Guy, on 10/13/2007, -24/+4* A hacked iPhone is going to cost you a LOT more money to use on the Internet - * A hacked iPhone (carrier change) is going to cost you a LOT more money to use on another carrier, if you can even get it to work (I have yet to see a carrier-switched iPhone in the wild) - * A hacked iPhone is not going to survive a single update from an iTunes sync without either "unhacking" (restoring the base image) or turning the phone (cell carrier decoupling) into a useless but attractive lump of technology. - * At this point, developing applications using the iPhone's native Cocoa is not a viable development platform. You have no audience. Your customers would need to be well above the power-user level in order to simply install your software. Your customers would violate their warranty and suffer all three of the previously listed consequences to hacking the phone just to run your software. It just ain't gonna happen.
- nickarodriguez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You have never hacked an iPhone then I take it. When it was being done to 1.0.2 it was not difficult at all. Unless you cannot figure out how to download an app. the double click on it to run it, then re-start your iPhone and use your finger to start installing apps right on the phone, then you think this is difficult. There was nothing hard about it and better yet THE APPS ARE GOOD! I am an apple fanboy to the core, but what they are doing with the phone is letting me down! You are allowed to put third party apps on your apple computer right? So why can't you put them on the computer that's in you pocket? You sir need to step off of your fanboy soapbox for just a min and take a look at the company that you love so much and see that they are not doing the right thing this time.
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't worry the next OSX won't let you install 3rd party apps either. Just remember Steve knows best.
I'm just waiting for Microsoft to recreate the 1984 Mac commercial with a room full of zombies on white laptops with white earbuds and Jobs up on the big screen.
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't worry the next OSX won't let you install 3rd party apps either. Just remember Steve knows best.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6All the iPhone owners in Europe and Asia would probably disagree with you about the no audience thing.
And iPhone owners who live in areas here in the U.S. that get poor/spotty/no coverage from AT&T would probably disagree with you as well.
You may not wish to hack your iPhone because of the reasons you list. But that doesn't mean that everyone's situation or point of view is the same as yours. I see nothing wrong with consumers making these decisions for themselves. - willynilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You posted the exact same STUPID AND INCORRECT statements before. Look at your first statement: WTF are you talking about? All of a sudden AT&T will magically detect (over the airwaves somehow) that your phone is hacked, void your contract, and then increase your charges? *****. Same goes for your second statement, which is the OPPOSITE of the truth. With an unlocked phone, you can go to Europe and buy prepaid SIMs from kiosks at local rates, and not pay AT&T's obscene markup on the very same service.
In summary, you're full of *****. - rellik12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3OMG - That was so funny. This OS2Guy is a total tool!
- andrewthrice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're giving os2 a bad name.
- nickarodriguez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You have never hacked an iPhone then I take it. When it was being done to 1.0.2 it was not difficult at all. Unless you cannot figure out how to download an app. the double click on it to run it, then re-start your iPhone and use your finger to start installing apps right on the phone, then you think this is difficult. There was nothing hard about it and better yet THE APPS ARE GOOD! I am an apple fanboy to the core, but what they are doing with the phone is letting me down! You are allowed to put third party apps on your apple computer right? So why can't you put them on the computer that's in you pocket? You sir need to step off of your fanboy soapbox for just a min and take a look at the company that you love so much and see that they are not doing the right thing this time.
- Mizzike, on 10/24/2007, -1/+24I couldn't tell from the description... what version was that again?
- hunchback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6thats version 1.245.125.12.478.5.3.69.0154.0036.5 beta 3, release candidate 4 alpha 5 version 15893.01254
- perandre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's 1.1.1
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*woosh*
- purty707, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1*****.
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So all that's left for me is to wait for an updated Installer.app so I can get my NES emulator back. Earthbound Zero will be in my hands again!
- ketha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1All fine and good but it doesn't allow you to 'Activate' 1.1.1..good news for those who want to downgrade but otherwise a red herring.
- frostbyt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Awesome. Now my phone has some weird message on it from ATT to call them. I wonder if I should call...
Why did I ever buy the hacked iphone? - hunchback, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Really, are there that many iPhone owners here on digg that any iPhone story goes right to the front page?
- yabos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14STOP calling it bricking. If you don't understand the word, don't use it. The phone was never bricked because obviously you can get it working again. Bricking means the phone is completely dead and unusable FOREVER.
- MrLeEx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just like a brick ;)
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I dugg you up because I agree, but you and I have to face it - the meaning of the word has escaped our grasp forever. That's what happens when you make hacking easy. The meaning of the word now is more liked "climbed up a tree to tall to get myself down from".
- MinnesotaTwins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This worked for me. I used iUnlock and was stuck on 1.0.2. I decided to buy this because it seems more stable than the current open source releases. I upgraded to 1.1.1 to "brick" my phone. Then downgraded back to 1.0.2 to apply SimFree, then upgraded back to 1.1.1 and activated it. It took way too long to do, but i've got 1.1.1 working on T-Moble.
- br0ken1128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok I was wondering how that was going to work .. I bought SimFree and ran it on my current 1.02 installation and it said the phone was already unlocked.. so I guess what I have to do is upgrade to 1.1.1.1 .. brick it .. then follow the tutorials to downgrade
- FridgeMagnate, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0So have you got 1.1.1 working fully ........... including iTunes wifi store?? If so how did you do the last bit?
- BBCmafia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Great now you CAN up grade to the 1.0.2 from the down graded 1.1.1 thats now i look at it. Get rid of the cripple ware they put on the thing
- chunkylimey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Before I make my main point I want to add that I own an Apple Mac, Like my Apple Mac and also like my iPod.
The main point is. If you were suckered into buying the overpriced, out of date and blatantly extortionate iPhone: You're an utter moron. There are plenty of better phone technologies out on the market in Asia and Europe already and if you're unfortunate enough to be stuck with the protectionist and backward looking mobile networks in North America I'm sorry you were suckered into thinking the iPhone was anything new and exciting. If Apple had instead focussed on pushing OSX as an operating system whilst Windows Vista floundered around in the market Apple might have actually gained more market share rather than the utterly idiotic project of the iPhone. It's obvious that for every great project Jobs comes up with there is an utterly stupid one. The iPhone is one of the stupid ones and it's a shame no one at Apple had the nerve to point it out. Dump the iPhone push the laptops and Apple stand a chance. Apple are great, the iPhone SUCKS. Sorry if you were dumb enough to buy one.- hotdamn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How come I like my iPhone so much, then?
- chunkylimey, on 10/14/2007, -2/+6For the record the idiot who was talking about iPhones in Europe obviously doesn't know that they haven't been released there/here yet. The iPhone will get a small market surge in Europe this Christmas and then sink without a trace as in Europe we get better phones for free with our contracts.
- superkendall, on 10/13/2007, -1/+4Do you know how much fun we are going to have laughing at you in six months?
The internet doesn't forget...
- superkendall, on 10/13/2007, -1/+4Do you know how much fun we are going to have laughing at you in six months?
- rebotfc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Can't stop the signal.
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