Ok so Apple just announced the new 3g iphone. Blah, blah new features, GPS, it’s faster, thicker (that’s what she said), and now replacing the 1.0 iphone. Yep thats right. Apple is no longer selling and manufacturing the 1st version of the iphone. Apple stated 1st gen iphone manufacturing stopped at 6 million. What does this mean right now? No iphones are for sale right now and the new version will be available July 11th.
This time around you will have to purchase and activate IN STORES only. I guess the whole in home activation thing got kind of nuts with the DIYers. I can only imagine how many of those 6 million phones are unlocked and being used overseas. I believe last time I heard AT&T only activated (correct me if I’m wrong) less than half of that number.
Well for all of you wondering if you will be able to unlock this new phone just as easily, the answer is most likely yes. When Apple released the SDK for the firmeware version 2.0 for the iphone the hacking began. Soon the news broke that 2.0 had been unlocked and relocked and unlocked again.
Update: These guys @ http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ have released an app for win/mac that jailbreaks the 3g iphone as well as allows you to install unapproved apps on the iphone. The tool will jailbreak and unlock a 1st gen iphone with 2.0 installed. But for those of you with any other service you will have to wait just a little longer.
And if you really what to go crazy try this.
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i was wonderin if i can youse my tmobile service on 2.0 if i upgrade
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so, I have a question, so far do we can use 3g phone in another country?
Unlock it means can use with any sim card right?
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I would expect the full unlock GUI to be released in less than a week for the 3g iphone. As for the 1st gens - it is quite a pain to upgrade to the latest firmware, you have to two a few different different programs (Winpwn & QuickPwnGUI)
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