Tag: UNLOCK

This little phenomenon has been going on ever since lines were wrapped around buildings as consumers waited impatiently for the iPhone 3G, but even now, original iPhones are fetching wild prices on the secondhand market. In a weird twist of economics, Apple's iPhone actually maintained the majority of its value even after its successor hit the market. Why, you ask? Put simply, a first-gen ...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak -- aka "Woz" -- is much more than a throbbing brain with a tie. He knows that the quickest way to a girl's heart is to jailbreak her iPhone... on TV. As he tells Ms. Kathy Griffin in the season premiere of 'My Life on the D-List,' "You know, some people would criticize you for not having hacked your iPhone." Certainly not you, Mr. Apple Co-founder? Watch it all go ...

When Apple dropped its iPhone update late last month to version 1.1.1, the company disabled hacks that allowed the phone to be used with carriers other than AT&T. We speculated that was the beginning of what would be a long and drawn-out war against the hackers. If that proves to be the case, consider this report the next strike: The iphoneSimFree team has offered the first unlock for the ...

Apple said it was coming. On Monday the company warned that unlocked iPhones would be made "permanently inoperable" by a future update, and that's exactly what has come to pass with the latest iPhone update that's just been released. Those brave (or foolish) souls who unlocked their phones from the AT&T network and then applied this latest firmware update from Apple now have a very shiny, ...

So much for AT&T's exclusive on the iPhone. After just 74 days on the market and more than a million units sold, the iPhone can now be used on any SIM-card based cellular network, which for the U.S., basically means T-Mobile. Since the day the iPhone was launched, hackers have been hard at work trying to break the handset free of its AT&T imprisonment. First, some hardware hacks appeared ...