im still thinking whether i should unlock the 3g iphone, i unlocked V1 because it was costing me £550 just to terminate my other very expensive contract, and since november, its gone down to £250.
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Who's going to unlock the new iPhone and who's not?
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I'm not going to unlock it. I also didn't unlock or do anything to my first 1st generation iPhone. Just used it how Apple intended. I fully plan on just using the thing how it's meant to be used.
damn...
well i guess im the only one here who would unlock it. That is if it was safe to. Im personally gonna wait several weeks till people find a way. Ive never had anything bad happen to me when i unlocked my iPhone, it worked flawlessly and easily. I used Pwnage Tool so its safe so far!
well i guess im the only one here who would unlock it. That is if it was safe to. Im personally gonna wait several weeks till people find a way. Ive never had anything bad happen to me when i unlocked my iPhone, it worked flawlessly and easily. I used Pwnage Tool so its safe so far!
I, too, shall wait until it is as easy to unlock 2.0 as it is to do 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4 these days.
It will be unlocked, but not for a while.
It will be unlocked, but not for a while.
May I ask where you're located, because personally, I had a Blackjack before the iPhone, and with unlimited data i was paying 20 more for data on a phone not as great....so I don't know, but the iPhne actually made my bill lower than it was before I got it, check the plany, &40 isnt that steep of a price if you're buying a $400 iPhone?
I'm on vodafone at the moment, and I have been with them for about 6 years now and the customer service is fantastic, they are willing to match o2's 1200minute plan and give it to me for £30, which reduces my monthly cost by £20 from my current price plan with them (£50) and im also on a 12 month contract and not 18 months I doubt I'l switch to o2....Voda is also throwing in the mobile broadband for free..but the downside is theres a 500MB limit so i gotta check if i go over or i can just use wifi only and disable data.
I thought they said they are expecting it to be extremley hard to unlock when the final software comes?
Nope. I am just going to buy it and activate it
I did this for the original phone and was very happy
I did this for the original phone and was very happy
why in god's name would you jailbreak it when the app store is coming out?
and first we have to wait to see if the V2 will be unlockable. As for me, I don't need to unlock it, as I am in service with AT&T.
The version 2.0 firmware is unlockable.
But ONLY on the existing iPhone. Only pwnagetool can unlock/jailbreak 2.0 and pwnage relies on the existing hardware in the iPhone.
The new 3G iPhone will have NEW hardware that pwnage will not work with.
So either the hackers have to modify it so it works - if that is even possible or find a different method to unlock the phone.
It seems very unlikely however that the new iPhone will be unlocked for at least a few months so if you don't want an iPhone contract you won't have an iPhone for quite a while after the new version is released!
But ONLY on the existing iPhone. Only pwnagetool can unlock/jailbreak 2.0 and pwnage relies on the existing hardware in the iPhone.
The new 3G iPhone will have NEW hardware that pwnage will not work with.
So either the hackers have to modify it so it works - if that is even possible or find a different method to unlock the phone.
It seems very unlikely however that the new iPhone will be unlocked for at least a few months so if you don't want an iPhone contract you won't have an iPhone for quite a while after the new version is released!
You might be better off with a poll for this
I took the liberty of adding one. Hope it's all right. Cheers.
My understanding was that it's generally agreed that there are useful things apps can do, and apps are already doing now through Installer, Cydia, etc, that are not feasible using the SDK, and/or would not fly on Apple's store? So those apps would continue to need to be installed using some alternate means, whether that means involves installer.app or somehow hijacking the process the store will use to load apps on the iPhone?