One of the more common and legitimate reasons to jailbreak your iPhone is to unlock it — to free it from the iron-clad grasp of one carrier, and let you use it more readily on international networks. However, according to TechNewsDaily tomorrow will mark a point when doing so could violate the … [Read more...]
We haven't heard much from the world of SIM unlocking of late, but the folks at Gevey have a new product that they claim will unlock at least some people's iPhone 4S. For a cool $55 the Gevey Ultra S will work with the GSM iPhone 4S if you're on baseband 1.0.11, 1.013, 1.0.14, and are using iOS … [Read more...]
There is a bizarre bug in iOS 5 found by Daniel Scaleb that allows for an iPhone 4S unlock. It requires a T-Mobile microSIM card and associated data plan. The directions are as follows: Start with your active AT&T card in the phone. Make a call and drop it. Put the phone in … [Read more...]
There has been some confusion about Sprint's policy on unlocking the SIM card in the Sprint iPhone 4S, but Jason Snell of Macworld was able to get some clarity on the situation. ...the Sprint iPhone 4S will ship with its micro-SIM slot unlocked. However, Sprint now says that it will be locking … [Read more...]
Since both Sprint and Verizon use CDMA networks, they don't need that handy little MicroSIM slot that comes in the side of the iPhone, and it appears they're going to open it up for international travelers to install foreign SIMs. According to MacWorld: But there’s a new wrinkle that potentially … [Read more...]
According to 9to5Mac, Apple stores now have the ability to unlock iPhones when they sell them. If the store is running low on officially unlocked handsets, they can now take an AT&T handset and just chose to unlock it, tripling the price, but getting you out from underneath AT&T's … [Read more...]
Remember how a couple of weeks ago we reported on a new method for unlocking the iPhone? They somehow managed to get your IMEI into Apple's database of unlocked phones, and after taking your $170, they were meant to keep you unlocked for life. Now the people offering this service are stopping it. … [Read more...]
There's a new way of unlocking your iPhone in town, but it ain't cheap. A number of online unlockers have started offering a service which will cost you a pretty penny, but promises to be a permanent unlock of the iPhone, without needing a jailbreak. To my knowledge, there are at least three … [Read more...]
The Dev Team have announced (via @MuscleNerd) the release of a new version of Ultrasn0w, offering a free carrier unlock for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS owners. Full details and download information available here. MuscleNerd notes that if you need iPad 3.2.2 IPSW from Apple, you may want to do that … [Read more...]
For those of us who want to unlock our iOS device, there's nothing easier to use than PwnageTool, and there's a new version which should be dropping at some point this week. PwnageTool 4.1 will jailbreak any iOS device running iOS 4.1 or older, so iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS (new bootrom), iPhone 3G, Apple … [Read more...]
