Possible to Unlock new iphone 3g?

[OtterRise]

Hi everyone,
I'd be very thankful if i can get some professional advice on my situation.

Here's my situation:
A year baack i bought a iphone 3g. the night i got it i successfully jailbroke it perfectly. I'm some what of a techy so I generally know what i'm doing.

Just yesturday i decided to buy another iphone off a private sales. It's still a 3g, only thing is, this phone is 1 month new.

The iphone comes from Fido and my sim is with Rogers, switching the sim over didn't work so i knew i need to unlock it.

problem is..
The iphone firmware is 3.1.3 which i have successfully jailbroken without a problem using snowbreeze.

the baseband is 5.12.01
and bootloader 5.09
these 2 is where my problem arises. I can't seem to unlock because of this.. I've heard the Devteam is working on something to get around this, but that might take a while.

Is there anyway I can simply get the phone to work with a different sim?

I was thinking restoring the factory default and putting in a 3.0 firmware and then proceeding to jailbreak then unlock that firmware. could that be done?

Thanks for any advice you guys might have.
Much appreciated.

 

[Applejuiced]

Not at the moment. You cannot unlock it on the latest baseband 05.12.01
Also downgrading the firmware does nothing to the baseband. Once updated it's done.

 

[OtterRise]

Ok, thanks.
that saves me a good hour if i decided to try it.

So i guess my best bet right now is to just leave the phone on the shelf till I see a unlock for 5.12.01 from either the dev team?
or a downgrader for bootloader 5.09, since fuzzyband only works on 5.08 and older?

 

[Applejuiced]

Pretty much.
Its a waiting game for now or you can use it as an ipod touch till a new hack is out.

 

[OtterRise]

Ok that sounds wasteful.. sorta. but i don't have any other options so guess i can't and wont complain.

how should i keep updated on my situation though? Google "iphone baseband 5.12.01 unlock" every once in a while?

or is it another problem else where? I hate how i can't keep updated through google filtered by article dates..

 

[Applejuiced]

Keep an eye on this site once in a while.
Tools, tutorials, download links and details info will be there.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/