Is an iPhone unlocking app on the way?

Wether it is good or not an iphone unlocking is going on. Both side stick to their own view. But there is one thing that IPHONE is marching into the market quickly.It is especially new in China. If anyone would like to sell anythings to China, try to find the business on http://www.acb2b.com/ - AmeriChinaB2B,one of the professional B2B trade marketplaces to facilitate online trades between exporters and importers from America and China.

hello ...
we are in Maldives at it puts us as far as it goes from the US ...
but we have got our hands on iphone too ...
but guess it'll just have to remain as an ipod ...
till someone comes out with an unlocking software or something ...
our fingers r crosses ... like most of the hopeful people around the globe ...
its a kewl tool ...

I'm just another European holding my breath, but for me its even worse because I'm not one of THE European countries who will be getting the iPhone first. I agree with the others who have written here - a locked phone just won't fly in Europe. That model just doesn't exist here.

I wish Apple had followed through on the rumor that the ApplePhoneShow spread back in May/June that an additional SKU would be sold:

An unlocked iPhone for $999.

The extra $400 could compensate Apple (and AT&T) for lost 2 year contract revenue.

Most US residents would still choose the AT&T plans because they'd get the phone cheaper and would need a voice/data plan anyway, but for those who wanted choice they could pay the extra.

And no-US residents wouldn't be currently a deep shade of blue holding their breath for an unlocking solution!

Is it just me, or is there going to be a bit of an issue with this locking business in the UK? IIRC, it's an Ofcom requirement that phones not be permanently locked to one network as this prevents users from moving their hardware from one network to another. However, whether this only applies outside of the contract period, I have no idea.

I'm pretty sure that if you are with, say, Orange in the UK and you decided to move to move to Vodafone, Orange are obliged to remotely unlock your handset so that you can make that move without incurring additional cost to yourself - if the handset belongs wholly to you (ie. you don't still owe Orange anything for it).

I'm fully prepared to be shot down, but I'm fairly sure I'm right... :o/

Check out the very bottom of this website. It's looks like it's only for windows though.

http://www.dvdtoiphone.net/download.html

Anyone who says that Apple or AT&T get to decide which carrier you use is completely WRONG. Let me use a different metaphor. When you drive a car off of the lot do you allow the dealership or the car manufacturer tell you if you are allowed to make it a bio-diesel or not?

The day you bought the device is the day they handed the keys over to you. Yes, they can make a firmware update to stop you from using an unlocked phone but then again the hack groups can also make inhibitors to stop the iphone from updating and allowing you to use the same function. And if it's already been cracked once... don't you think it can be cracked again?

It's frustrating that there are too many people who don't know what they are talking about... well, talking.

Beyond that, Uniquephones is a scam. How many engineers do you think they have working around the world? Go join, irc.osx86.hu #iphone-dev . How many hackers do you think are working on unlocking it and doing it opensource and free? Uniquephones did NOT create jailbreak or iphoneinterface which are two key components to getting everyone one step closer to unlocked phones.

These people are scam artists and just touting garbage.

The whole locking business is such a load of BS. Assume that the locking is in place because the carrier wants to recoup the subsidy, but everyone of the them already has measure in place to punish you financially if you leave them before your contract ends.

I like Apple products and have bought many of their products over the years. But locking the iPhone locked with AT&T for 5 years is starting to turn me against a company I so want to like. Making consumer unfriendly decisions will ultimately come back to bite you. Sony is the cautionary take.

As for the comments, what kind of logic and Apple/AT&T apologist crap is this:
"While I'm just as unhappy about carrier lock-in as the next guy who would prefer to roam the wireless seas in any direction he choses, Apple and AT&T have still put a tremendous amount of collaborative effort into developing the iPhone (let's not forget the alterations AT&T had to make to their network and software for features like Visual Voicemail), and outside of all the new contract signups, we really aren't sure how else AT&T is getting compensated from this deal."

I tell you how AT&T and Apple are being compensated on this: shared revenue on the huge markup on the iPhones they sell. When you see the big earning jump at the Apple annual report, you will know. As far as the so-called changes AT&T had to make to their network, oh, please, they should have done these years and years ago.

Greed, greed, and greed. I am so p-ed off at Apple in this locked iPhone.

I say we just need to free the iphone and call it a day.

http://freetheiphone.org/

The iPhone absolutely needs to be unlocked for use with another carrier and to install 3rd party apps, or it will not be taked very seriously.

Kind of like this Apple product:

http://www.staggeron.org/universe.html#Apple_iSuck