So you say
writing SIMs all by your lonesome isn't part of your daily routine, but you're still interested in freeing the
iPhone from AT&T's surly bonds? Yeah, we can't blame you -- we're pretty much in the same boat -- so we're glad to see that an ever-so-slightly easier unlocking trick has bubbled out of the hive mind just a week after the original. This new hackery involves a specialized SIM card called a "Turbo SIM" manufactured by the Czech Republic's BLADOX. The idea behind the Turbo SIM is that you can add... well,
stuff to the Turbo SIM, sandwich it between your regular SIM and your phone, and the loaded material then becomes available to the handset; traditionally, that "stuff" is value-add software like customized SMS directories, security, logging, and the like. In this case, though, the chip is used to pass through the original AT&T SIM's identifying information to the phone while preserving the calling capability of the Carrier X SIM of your choosing. Of course, a €59 (about $81) Turbo SIM has to be ordered from afar to get this accomplished, the phone has to be
jailbreaked, and a handful of files need to be downloaded, edited, and executed, so this still isn't for the faint of heart. As always, buyer beware, and find a nice stack of paper that needs weightin' in case everything goes south in a hurry.
[Via
iPhone World]
posted Aug 14th 2007 10:35PM
That's the cheapest and easiest way to unlock your iphone.... ^_^
I cannot stress enough that this will not work in the United States. You need a V1 SIM, and just about every SIM here is a V2 SIM. All you will do is fry your SIM, and possibly quickly get a (very unpleasant) call from your carrier's fraud/security department.
- Christopher Price
http://www.phonenews.com
No- what we're doing is grabbing he info from an AT&T SIM, not actually using it. The other carrier's SIM goes on top- it's up to the user to ask if they have v1 SIMs.
Forgot to add (whoops)- this is for people in other countries, not in America (the T-Mobile users can wait for the German iPhone- T-Mobile has a policy of not locking phones to a single country's T-Mobile).
way to go for unlocking the iphone! but isn't it complicated to open your iphone? i bought 150 pieces of turbo sim which unlocks the phone as well. i can use any carrier all over the world. if anyone is interested, i am selling it for $250 each. if you think this is a spam, or hoax, you can surf for it. its turbo sim. It's currently out of stock in the market but i was able to obtain it ahead of time. email me if interested toddkendall1@yahoo.com