iPhone 3G unlocked at last?

yep, well done to the iPhone Dev team!

now all attention will hopefully focus on the iPod Touch 2G, for a potential jailbreak :)
 
Pretty pointless if it already needs to be jailbroken, would it be possible just to get a standard O2 sim card and then jailbreak it and then unlock it that way?
 
Johnz0r said:
Pretty pointless if it already needs to be jailbroken, would it be possible just to get a standard O2 sim card and then jailbreak it and then unlock it that way?
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Umm you havent been watching this much have you??

Best news ive heard for ages :D:D:D

Dev team rocks !!!11!11!!
 
Elrein said:
Umm you havent been watching this much have you??

Best news ive heard for ages :D:D:D

Dev team rocks !!!11!11!!
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I have read it, here I have highlighted it.

iPhone Dev Blog said:
The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.
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I already own a jailbroken 16GB 1st gen on Orange, but if you need to jailbreak it don't you have to have it unlocked first?
 
Jailbreaking and Unlocking are two completly different thngs

Jailbreaking allows 3rd party apps and disk access, Unlocking just lets you use any sim on any network

You can have a locked iPhone thats jailbroken, your just stuck on O2 thats all
 
..and I bet Apple release a upgraded iPhone (32GB) soon after the 31st ;)
 
Bare in mind this only works on the original 3G baseband - if you bought the phone new today from an O2 store, it may well have newer firmware on than 2.0! Not only that, the 3G baseband was most probably updated a few times as part of the fix for problems people were having with 3G reliability and signal issues.

I'd still reckon the best course of action is to pay a little more and import the phone from a country that sells them sim-free - there's a fair few on ebay. £550 ish for a 16Gb.

Personally, I'm sticking with my 2G - the battery life isn't good enough, I'd quite like 32Gb, and I'm not too keen on the plasticy back having held a few of them (but that's just fussy... and I could be easily persuaded if they sorted the first two things out!).
 
csmager said:
Bare in mind this only works on the original 3G baseband - if you bought the phone new today from an O2 store, it may well have newer firmware on than 2.0! Not only that, the 3G baseband was most probably updated a few times as part of the fix for problems people were having with 3G reliability and signal issues.

I'd still reckon the best course of action is to pay a little more and import the phone from a country that sells them sim-free - there's a fair few on ebay. £550 ish for a 16Gb.

Personally, I'm sticking with my 2G - the battery life isn't good enough, I'd quite like 32Gb, and I'm not too keen on the plasticy back having held a few of them (but that's just fussy... and I could be easily persuaded if they sorted the first two things out!).
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I've got an unlocked iPhone 3G (which is staying in the box until xmas eve) and that is Italian stock from what I could tell. (Italian text on the label stuck at the back of the box), although the supplier did take the trouble to produce a copy of an english manual and put it in the box. £579 for the 8GB though. You can find cheaper on auction sites etc, but I saw that as extra risk when the shop is 5 minutes from my office and I know the owner well enough to shout for a replacement or my money back if there was a problem.

I am in teo minds on whether to jailbreak it or not though. Depends how much that hinders my use of iTunes and how difficult it becomes to upgrade firmwares. One thing about Apple is their firmwares tend to offer new stuff, not just correct some obscure bugs you hadnt noticed.
 
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csmager said:
Bare in mind this only works on the original 3G baseband - if you bought the phone new today from an O2 store, it may well have newer firmware on than 2.0! Not only that, the 3G baseband was most probably updated a few times as part of the fix for problems people were having with 3G reliability and signal issues.
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Wasn't this the case with the 2G iPhone though and thats why a lot of hacks just downgraded the baseband? I remember downloading baseband versions 3.9 and 4.6 to unlock mine so surely it is possible to downgrade.
 
Wicksta said:
Wasn't this the case with the 2G iPhone though and thats why a lot of hacks just downgraded the baseband? I remember downloading baseband versions 3.9 and 4.6 to unlock mine so surely it is possible to downgrade.
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That's the bootloader. As yet, you can't downgrade the baseband and the newer ones can't be cracked. This is why the dev-team have advised patching all software upgrades since the 3G launch to remove baseband updates, as they said any unlock would most probbaly only work on the original one. Time will tell.
 
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