NJ teen trades his unlocked iPhone for three more and a sports car
By Nilay Patel 
posted Aug 27th 2007 7:49PM
posted Aug 27th 2007 7:49PM
While the rest of us patiently wait for either UniquePhones or iPhoneSIMfree to call high noon on AT&T's legal team and release their software unlocks, 17-year-old George Hotz is cashing in on all those hours of work it took him to work his hardware magic: Terry Daidone, the founder of phone reseller CertiCell, traded three locked 8GB iPhones and one Nissan 350Z to get his hot little hands on Geohot's unlocked unit. Geohot says he'll give the three phones to his first PayPal contributor and two of his hacking accomplices, and we're betting that car will come in handy when he heads off to college this week. Hey, we've got an unlocked iPhone sitting around here somewhere -- but we're not settling for anything less than an actual sentient KITT.
Say what? Was this guy on crack when making this deal? A nissan 350Z? At least he could have picked a decent smartphone and get a HTC Kaiser for his trouble. I wouldn't trade my old Qtek 9100 for a locked or unlocked iPhone. I think Stevie J. has some less than intelligent people memorized by the marketing blitz....
all I can say is photo or ban
What the fuck? Why didn't he just wait for someone else to buy the phone and then pay the kid to mod one of his three locked ones?
This is absolutely ridiculous. This just shows how freaking stupid people are. What a moron. Way to go George though, you cashed in on that idiot.
It was a fair deal. Both thought it was a fair deal. Who are you to say? Just because it's not valuable to you doesn't mean it's not valuable to both of them. Just like in Dances with Wolves, "Good Trade, uh?"