Hackers unlock iPhone for no money down, ten payments of nothin’

Keen to unlock your iPhone, but don’t relish the idea of spending another hundred smackaroos on top of the cash you’ve already dropped? Patience, as they say, is a virtue and if you’ve been waiting, this may be your lucky day. The folks at iPhone Dev, who brought us the likes of jailbreak have struck again, this time with iUnlock, the first totally free solution for unlocking the iPhone.

While it may not be as pretty as iPhoneSIMFree’s offering, reports indicate that it seems to work just as well. Rough edges are still being worked out, as it apparently takes some amount of time for the unlock to actually process. Engadget’s got instructions on how to do the unlock, which at the moment requires jailbreak to get the unlock app onto the phone. A GUI version of iUnlock is under way, but it’s not quite ready yet, so if you can afford to wait a few days, the process will only get smoother.

And of course, there’s no telling what Apple may do in subsequent software updates, so this could all be rendered moot.

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Posted by Dan Moren on Sep 12 2007, 11:21 AM ET

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