Iphone unlock Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Blacksn0w unlocks iPhone OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07

by Josh Carr (Nov 3rd, 2009)

For the last several months, anyone who had updated to iPhone OS 3.1 or greater without following a pre-update procedure lost the unlock on their iPhones due to new software in the modem firmware or the baseband. Using the at+xemn crash as an injection point, iPhone hacker Geohot (of the original ...

iPhone firmware 1.1.3 breaks unlocks

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 30th, 2007)

This continuing cat and mouse game reminds me of radar detectors. I recall when radar detectors first came out, and something akin to an arms race broke out between authorities and lead-footed civilians to stay one step ahead of each other. I'm fairly certain that's a race that won't end until ...

Apple: "iPhone SIM unlockers will end up with iBricks"

by Nik Fletcher (Sep 24th, 2007)

Here at TUAW HQ (located on this occasion very much east of the Atlantic ocean), we've been receiving a flurry of tips about a certain press release from Cupertino folks about iPhone unlocking. The short of it? Apple's telling consumers that "unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the ...

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