Saturday, August 25, 2007

Unlock your iPhone

Geoffrey here, saying that if you are on a cell phone network OTHER than AT&T, and you want to use an iPhone on that network, well, read on here: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

There are a lot of obvious warnings here: attempting this may render your $500 supergadget into a $500 paperweight. Also, this is not for the faint of heart: heavy technical knowledge (which Street Tech can help only so much on) and a steady hand for soldering is needed.

Oh, by the way: I have no reason to attempt this for myself as 1) I'm already on AT&T, and 2) I have my iPAQ hw6515a (EDIT: changed to an AT&T 8525/HTC TyTN/Hermes), not an iPhone. So don't ask me to do this and don't hold me to do this; this is done at your own risk!

(It's pretty cool, though...)

The one responsible for pulling this off, George Hotz (geohat), has appeared on CNBC for this feat. And he is only 17 years old. Think what you guys can do.

--Geoffrey
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