T-mobile iPhone?

[TarekElsakka]

You could unlock one and use it on tmo.

Yeah thats what I did, and my iPhone worked flawlessly with T-mobile

Could you please tell me how you unlocked it? I am talking about the 3G. I googled for almost two days trying to find any software (paid or free) to unlock it but just couldn't. 99% of them are just selling the turbo sim (some of them even have stupid names like Pig Sim and stuff lol). When I bought it it already came with the turbo sim but I still hate it, because now I can not access my iPhone 3G on iTunes v8 except when I insert the AT&T sim that came with the phone.

[projectdarkside]

I unlocked the v1 iPhone I had
-their isnt an unlock yet for the iPhone 3G

[TarekElsakka]

That's what I read in every website, that's so freaking sad. The iPhone Dev Team successfully hacked the baseband of the iPhone 3G though, and they are working out on an unlock which will be produced very soon and free.

[projectdarkside]

I know man its gonna be great
-But once that happens the price for unlocked 3G's is gonna skyrocket haha!

[TarekElsakka]

Actually it's the opposite. The price of unlocked iPhones will go down hill because now ANY ONE can buy a cheap locked one and unlock it him/herself .

[belanski]

Sadly there is no software unlock as others said. In the meantime you can just find a good unlock sim card like the one I bought from guys at http://unlockediphone.info
I read on some forum about a person who bought 3g "unlock software". He paid something like 25 Euros and they sent him pwng???

[TarekElsakka]

Sadly there is no software unlock as others said. In the meantime you can just find a good unlock sim card like the one I bought from guys at http://unlockediphone.info
I read on some forum about a person who bought 3g "unlock software". He paid something like 25 Euros and they sent him pwng???

That's exactly the one I have.

[projectdarkside]

Well some people are lazy
-and would much rather buy it already unlocked and stuff

The price would also increase because of people like me who dont want to buy into a contract and instead use it on Tmobile

[oakie]

Apple is stupid to make that contract with AT&T anyway. What if some one is from another country and willing to pay a lot of money for that phone just for it to be FACTORY unlocked? They would just have to end up buying it from an unknown store with the stupid turbo sim. *talking about myself by the way*.

Apple can benefit more by selling it unlocked, I am serious, don't ask me how but they still sold more than HTC Diamond did (which is sold unlocked from the official stores).

at&t paid for the majority of the R&D for the iphone in trade for long term exclusivity. apple pitched the idea to all of the major providers in the US and only at&t bit on it.

exclusivity runs out in 2010 though.

as for factory unlocked, Hutchinson in Hong Kong sells them officially unlocked as required by their local laws. France, via Orange and T-Mobile Deutsche also offer factory authorized unlocking as required by the EU for device roaming and interoperability.

you can get a gray market, factory unlocked 3g iphone here in the US quite easily, but it's not cheap.


but as to why they wont sell it worldwide unlocked, it's because apple is making money from the required data plans ALL providers in ALL countries authorized to sell the iphone. if they sold it unlocked, apple would LOSE millions they're getting from the data plans. i dont think you fully grasp the deals apple has negotiated with all of the carriers authorized to sell the iphone.

[Youngbinks]

Exactly. Which means there is no real point to having an unlocked 3G unless you are just trying to avoid the contract for 2 years.