Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Car

I'm so sick of the bunch of your crying about AT&T making the IPhone Exclusive and Apple making it exclusive. Geez, you simple minded drama queens need to read up on your sources. www.phonescoop.com, www.gizmodo.com. look up the IPhone in both sites and you will see that the Apple was turned down by your Verizons, your Sprints and your Shi-T-Mobiles before AT&T agreed to service the device. In turn, AT&T sought after a lengthy exclusivity after they created VISUAL VOICEMAIL solely for the device. Just like roll over, VISUAL VOICEMAIL BELONGS TO AT&T and no other US carrier so all of you rejects that are looking for the unlocking mechanisms for the phone can do just like Leigh says and just pop in your sim to use it for voice only because thats all that will work. As far as the boy, he's no doubt a genious, but horrible at negotiations and his parents and worse for allowing such a deal. He should of done like Shi-T-Mobile and GET MORE! As for everyone talking smack about possible lawsuits. Read my earlier comments. he is not endanger of legal action for the sole purpose of unlocking the phone. The transaction he was involved in with Citricell is however a form a copyright infringement that if not pursued and deam several laws and court actions dismissable. Many of which included music and movie pirating. So, put the naive thoughts away and discuss something more promissing than your ill-conceived notions because he will be involved in larger battles unless he has already signed his rights to the device and code away to Citricell or whatever their name is. And you AT&T bashers need to grow up and learn how to handle your expenses. Billing errors are merely user errors in disguise. Budget accordingly btches

he should have def. asked for a g356mt..or better yet waited for the g37
but anyway this kid is a genius and the sad part is reading all of your jealous comments

he should have def. asked for a g356mt..or better yet waited for the g37
but anyway this kid is a genius and the sad part is reading all of your jealous comments

he should have def. asked for a g356mt..or better yet waited for the g37
but anyway this kid is a genius and the sad part is reading all of your jealous comments

Is that the smell of a lawsuit in the air?

Congrats to tis kid. Finally someone takes a bite out of the apple.Oh and by the way Jason WTF? A 17yr old shouldn't own their own car? Where are you from anyway? I had a car before I turned 16, because I could!!! I worked hard for it.

WHAT, WAIT AND SEE IF APPLE WILL GIVE YOU MORE MONEY. THE GREED SYNDROME AGAIN. THIS KID IS INTELLIGENT, EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT AND WILL GO FAR. YOU WHO BASH HIM ARE JEALOUS. THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO IT.

Give me a break you cry babys! You know damn well if any of you were smart enought to hack the i-phone first you would of done the same thing he did. Your telling me you would turn down a $30,000 car 3 $600 phones and a job making money almost for nothing if you were 17 in high school?? Plus how did he steal anything? Just because he hacked the phone doesn't mean nothing, but your getting over on AT&T for hogging the phone all to itself

the kid is stupid for going for the 1st deal thrown at him, but hey he's a kid and a kid whose really really good at what he does, and for all that other bullshit being spat, really F U C K those big corp. machines i could care less if they loose millions they already have billions upon billions and it just shows how savy and talented people are out there a damn 17 yr old out did what a damn thousand employees were trained and paid to stop in the first place... the youth of our generation far far far more talented then previous generations -n- i can't wait for us to rid the world of your facist, racist, religious bull that you've flooded our world with in the first place. you blame us but yet who have we learned all these things from, who is incharge of all this commercialism, and "hollywood" which is destroying our culture, you the F u C ks from previous genration...

IF THIS KID IS SO SMART WHY DIDN'T HE HOLD OUT FOR A LITTLE LONGER AND MAYBE HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN A JAG OUT OF THE DEAL AND MAYBE SOME CASH???

For all you idiots that are saying he should have held out for more money, maybe it isn't about the money to him. Maybe he is simply satisfied at his accomplishment and publicity. Some people are happy with simple and small things. Sounds like the rest of you are just greedy. Which is pretty much the American way.

too bad we dont, have smarter kids out there doing the same thing he did at least he is not using his yalents to undermine the government just those greedy corporations...

Kid gets a $600 phone bought for him, and decides to tamper with it and see if he can get his moneys worth. After figuring out how to "do the unthinkable" and unlock it, he walks away with a brand new $40,000 car and $1800 worth of phones. Whereas if he asks for more then they tie him up in court and walk all over him and put him in debt due to lawyers fees. Do I personally think he could have been driving a Ferrari out of this deal, of course, but then again lets think practically. A seventeen year-old kid driving a Ferrari would impress the ladies, but he wouldnt be able to afford it. As for getting seven figures, it is very doubtful, the courts, Apple, and god knows who else would find some way to sue this kid for being smart. My question is, why would you give the kid 3 more Iphones to hack open and unlock?!

SO THAT KID GETS 100,000 FOR BREAKING INTO A PHONE ADN DOING SOMETHING IIEGLAL ??? GREAT EXAMPLE YOU ARE SETTING FOR THE KIDS!! TERRIFIC! NOW GO TELL THEM TO PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES! I PITY THESE FOULS.

The trade isn't bad considering the kid is not getting an ordinary car. The reports I have seen is that he is getting a car featured in the movie Fast & Furriois 3. A very fast high performance machine with a cult movie following. Worth much more than list price.

I do worry about him though. He is in an area with a lot of country roads that invite extreme driving with a hot car, especially for a young person. I know, I was there in the muscle car era and did exactly that. I was a native and knew the roads though. I knew I could go flat out for seemingly endless miles, but also knew exactly where that hidden hairpin curve would be.

A hot car, a young person with limited driving experience, tempting roads, all makes for a bad mix. Hopefully, he will sell the car and get a sensible one, but I doubt it. I was 17 once too and one of the last survivors of the kids that raced their muscle cars in that area. I lost five friends that knew the territory in one year, that never made it to 18.

I do hope this very creative kid has better sense than I and my friends did in the '60s

all this time i thought i would get thrown in jail for
this... ya
there was 12 other people before you that figured this
out...but you got the fame so congrats !!! but then again u fail cause it took u how long? lol the fastest time is like well idk between the 12 the fastest would be like grr ahhh 10 minutes give or take. took me 30 :(
but i wonder if we would have as much luck as u. would all 12 of us get a car and money too??.. grrr dont care yay wahtever and forget at and t becuase their stupid and mess with the wrong people ...no onder theres like 20 lawsuits towards them every month... but it isnt a bad thing really the iphone is a device to communicate with so it should be able do to anything communication o... blah.. and peoples just cause you cant do it too dont get mad at us! it not my fault you peoples didnt get into prog/elec class ! =P

Good for him. Way to go for Sticking it to the Man! Some of you people say he is a thief. Well, Everybody is a thief today. Big Buisness, politiacians, The government, ECT, ALL THIEVES! They are all looking to get into your wallet. Thats it! They dont give a crap about the little guy. They just care about lining their own pockets up with money.

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!!!

Sincirely Nick Banta

The Kid is unethical! Give me a F Break. What do you call what Apple & AT&T did. They try to force everyone to abandon their phone carrier with their own scam. Besides, from what I read, the kid isn't breaking any laws. There's no law about breaking that code. I just think all the other carriers should agree never to carry the iphone. I'm sure Microsoft is working on a similar product. That's the one they should support. Oh, I think the kid would have done better by just fixing phones and selling them on ebay.

he is no theif. there is no law in regards to manipulating the software of a cell phone. not to mention the fact that apple knew it would not be long before someone hacked it. i mean come on, if you are complaining then you are just a jealous person who was not smart enough to crack it yourself.

Awesome, I have a T-Mobile Cell phone tower right outside my studio's window!