A smart teenager figured out how to break the technological locks confining the iPhone to AT&T’s network and posted the instructions online.
With Software and Soldering, a Non-AT&T iPhone
New York Times
By: Brad Stone
Aug. 25, 2007
AT&T is paying millions to be the exclusive United States provider of Apple’s much-hyped and glowingly reviewed gadget, the iPhone.
It took 17-year-old George Hotz two months of work to undermine AT&T’s investment.
Mr. Hotz, a resident of Glen Rock, N.J., published detailed instructions online this week that he says will let iPhone owners abandon AT&T’s service and use their phones on some competing cellular networks....People who work on unlocking cellphones say those technical locks unfairly restrict customer choice. They want to give cellphone users the flexibility to take their phones with them overseas without incurring heavy roaming fees, or to transfer the devices to other networks once a user’s service contract has expired"....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/technology/25iphone.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
Saturday, October 6, 2007
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