http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJ1RGlxe8Q
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0164884672
http://iphonesimfree.com/
A very large number of readers sent in stories about one or the other of the two new claims to have unlocked the iPhone for use on other GSM carriers. A New Jersey teenager, George Hotz, posted instructions for unlocking the iPhone using a soldering gun and a lot of patience. This is from coverage in a local NJ paper: "If someone handed him an iPhone new out of the box, he could modify it in 'about an hour,' he said. A person following his directions might take 'a good 12 hours,' the teen estimated." Hotz has put up a YouTube video substantiating his claim, and is conducting an eBay auction for one of his two hacked phones. The other hack is by a commercial outfit called iPhoneSIMfree.com, whose claim Engadget has verified. The company will be selling licenses to the hack, minimum quantity 500, at a price not yet announced. These hacks are much bigger news for those outside America. Expect to see an industry spring up to meet European (and Asian?) demand for freed iPhones.
FULL HARDWARE UNLOCK OF IPHONE DONE
Yes thats right, we have an unlocked iPhone. The hardware is only used to unlock the iPhone, and can be removed after it's unlocked. Thanks to gray, iProof, geohot, dinopio, lazyc0der, and an anonymous contributor for making this possible. Thanks also to everyone who donated and stuck with us in #iphone.unlock. Our group has agreed to release the method in one week. The current method involves taking apart your phone and doing some complicated soldering, with a high probablity of a bricked phone. Although after the phone is unlocked all the hardware can be removed. We hope to find a software unlock very soon. So in one week exactly from this blog post(thats less than the time it takes to ship a turbosim) we will release simple step by step instructions for unlocking, probably not even involving hardware. Sorry about the wait, but I assure you it will be worth it.
First of all, I am geohot, and I will be linking to this auction from my blog to prove it. This is the worlds second unlocked iPhone(outside of apple vaults), and your chance to own a piece of mobile telephone history. The first phone in the youtube video remains safely in my pocket at all times. But the second one, the one unlocked live on the blog is available here. This was the most hyped unlock for arguably the most hyped product in history. This is the iPhone from the blog, that was unlocked live for the world @ http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com
This is the closest you can ever get to the first unlocked phone, as I use the first as my personal cell phone.
This phone is ready to work with any SIM card. I patched out activation, so you can just pop in the sim and go. This is the only iPhone on ebay right now that can claim that. The wires for the testpoint are taped to the battery inside the phone. They are easy to access after you open the phone. The modem already has the 3.14 firmware. Be aware that an update will reset this phone to being locked, but I left all the files required for unlocking on the phone. You will always be able to reunlock this phone. The soldering on the testpoint is very well done and epoxied in place.
I'm not just including the iPhone in the auction. You'll get
* The 4GB iPhone, signed by geohot, with no damage at all
* The world first serial dock, the one the serial interface was discovered on
* And the official unlock switch from the blog.
Soon, you will be able to buy unlocked iPhones everywhere, in fact probably before this auction ends. But this is the one that started it all. The one unlocked while the steps were posted live on the blog. This isn't just an unlocked iPhone, this is a piece of history.
I'm starting the bidding at $540, the price of the phone+the level convertor.
George Hotz calls it "a piece of history". The first successfully unlocked iPhone is now available to buy on popular auction site eBay.
17 year-old George Hotz has announced that he has successfully hacked an iPhone - and is actually using it with a T-Mobil service!
If you'd like to unlock your iPhone, Hotz has posted very detailed instructions on how to do it yourself! As for the eBay sale of the phone he unlocked, George Hotz wants to make it clear:
This is the phone that was unlocked live here this morning. It includes the phone, the world's first serial dock, and the official unlock switch from the blog.
As a note, if you are only bidding on this to get an unlocked iPhone, don't. There are much cheaper and easier ways to get one. This is a piece of cell phone history. I have no intention of ever starting an unlocking service.
It was just a matter of time. Now, George Hotz, age seventeen, has a unique claim on hacker fame (or infamy, according to your point of view). Mr Holz has figured out how to unlock the iPhone:
“…George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J., spent his last summer before college figuring out how to “unlock” the iPhone, freeing it from being restricted to a single carrier, AT&T Inc.
The procedure, which the 17-year-old posted on his blog Thursday, raises the possibility of a cottage industry springing up to buy iPhones, unlocking them and then selling them to people who don’t want AT&T service or can’t get it, particularly overseas.”
北京时间8月25日消息：据国外媒体25日报道，苹果公司的iPhone问世之后，如何破解这款手机用于其他运营商网络成为许多消费者关注的焦点。日前，美国新泽西州一名17岁的高中生在花费五百小时之后，成功破解了iPhone，并将其应用到了T-Mobile美国公司的网络上。
他这款手机目前在eBay竞价三千美元。
这名心灵手巧的高中生名叫乔治·霍茨。在iPhone上市之后，他利用暑假假期一共花费了五百个小时的时间，琢磨如何在其他公司的移动网络中使用iPhone。最后终于获得成功。日前，他在自己的博客上公开了破解的过程。（霍茨博客的网址是iphonejtag.blogspot.com）
媒体分析认为，霍茨破解iPhone手机的成功，或许会开创一个新的家庭手工产业。由于iPhone手机在美国只能使用在AT&T公司的网络上，许多其他公司的消费者非常期盼也能够用上iPhone手机。这已经催生出一个庞大的市场需求。
据悉，整个破解过程技术要求非常高，同时涉及硬件和软件技术。一般人难以掌握这样难度的技术。在破解过程中，任何一个差错都将会让五百美元买来的iPhone手机变成一块废铁。鉴于此，这种破解技术不会成为一种家喻户晓的雕虫小技。
霍茨在接受媒体电话采访时说，不论难度如何大，最关键的是，他成功破解了iPhone手机。霍茨表示，下一步，希望其他高手能够寻找到利用纯软件技术将iPhone破解的方法。
对于霍茨宣布的消息，苹果公司和美国电话电报公司的发言人都没有作出评论。霍茨表示，两家公司的人也没有联系过他。
周四，霍茨把自己破解的手机放到了eBay网站上进行拍卖，目前最高的竞价已经到了三千美元。目前市面上，4G容量的iPhone新手机售价为五百美元。
霍茨说，在这次破解过程中，他还有其他四个合作伙伴，其中两人来自俄国，两人在美国，他只知道他们的网名。他说，一些同学认为他浪费了整个暑假，但是他觉得很值。25日，霍茨将会步入大学校门，他选择了罗切斯特理工学院，攻读神经科学专业，按照他的说法，这个专业将是“如何破解人的大脑”。
此前，iPhone手机已经通过其他手段成功移植到了海外国家的移动网络上。不过破解者采用拷贝SIM卡信息的方式，因此严格来说不算是破解。这种对SIM卡的操作需要特殊的设备，一般人无法做到。
霍茨和SIM拷贝的方式都基本上保持了iPhone的大多数功能，比如内置摄像头、访问无线局域网等等。不过，两种方式下，iPhone的可视化语音邮件功能受到影响，无法再使用。
由于两种破解方式都已经在网络上曝光。媒体分析认为，苹果公司肯定会利用这些信息对于iPhone手机的设计进行改动。苹果已经表示，年内将在欧洲销售iPhone手机，但是至今，苹果还没有敲定日期或者合作运营商。业界猜测，进入欧洲市场的iPhone应该支持3G网络。
值得一提的是，破解手机在美国并不违法。去年，美国国会图书馆特意明确，手机破解的内容不在《千年数字版权法》覆盖之内。此前，有人曾经破解视频游戏机，以自行增加游戏软件数量，这种行为曾按《千年数字版权法》遭到起诉。
