Unlocking the iPhone in ten sort-of-kinda easy steps

By now you’ve heard the news. Town criers are shouting it from the rooftops. People passing in the streets are whispering to one another, and even the animals have sensed that something is amiss. But in case you’ve just emerged from some sort of ursine-like hibernation, allow me to tell you this: a teenager has managed to unlock the iPhone.

Seventeen year old George Hotz of Glen Rock, New Jersey is said to currently be using the iPhone on T-Mobile’s network, with all features of the iPhone intact, save the Visual Voicemail that relies on AT&T’s network. Hotz worked with a group of four others, some in the US and some elsewhere around the world to figure out the unlocking procedure.

Unfortunately, if you’re planning on following Hotz’s example (full instructions are posted on his blog), you’d better be handy with a soldering iron and not worried about potentially voiding your iPhone’s warranty. Otherwise, looks like you may be better off waiting with the rest of us.

[Thanks to everybody who sent this in]

Category: AT&T, Hardware

Posted by Dan Moren on Aug 24 2007, 12:35 PM ET

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