iPhone Unlock Toolkit 1.0.0.1
The long awaited iPhone has been on the market for just a few weeks and the first tools to unlock this nice device popping up already. Thanks to Steve Jobs for this download.
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4.8.2007 iPhone dev team confirm 3G iPhone unlocked for all networks
The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the team like QuickPwn.
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17.12.2008 iPhone 3G: no-contract iPhone on tap
Looks like we'll have to get up bright and early to buy the new iPhone. Also, AT&T says a "no-commitment" iPhone is "coming soon."
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2.7.2008 New iPhone 3.0 OS available
A revised operating system for Apple's iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste to the popular handset.
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17.6.2009 Apple Announces iPhone
Macworld is going on right now, and Apple’s biggest announcement of the day so far has been the introduction of the iPhone.
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9.1.2007 Eight Reasons to Think Before Buying an iPhone
Apple made a big splash when it announced the iPhone last month. But with its hefty price tag, restriction to a single carrier and departure from many traditional smart-phone features, buying the iPhone requires careful forethought.
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8.2.2007 Full review of the iPhone
Despite important missing features, a slow data network, and call quality that doesn't always deliver, Apple's iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated cell phone and MP3 player. See how it stacks up to our testing.
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1.7.2007 3G IPhone to be in June!
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.
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26.4.2008 3G iPhone for $199
Live updates and analysis on Steve Job’s keynote address at the 2008 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference..
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9.6.2008 Will BlackBerry kill the iPhone?
Just a few short weeks after the Mac trounced competitors in a customer satisfaction survey, the iPhone has repeated the same trick for Apple in the smartphone market.
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7.5.2009 Jobs: iPhone is winning
Did you think Apple didn’t care that its former hardware guru Jon Rubinstein and a bunch of former Apple employees left the company to help Palm create an iPhone-competitor in the Palm Pre? Think again.
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22.6.2009 iPhone 3.1 Beta 3 Firmware
Apple has seeded the latest Beta 3 version of iPhone OS 3.1 Build 7C116a along with a newer version of iPhone SDK 3.1 Beta 3 Build 9M2808 to iPhone Dev Center.
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27.7.2009 Microsoft Warns Apple On iPhone
Software giant Microsoft has warned its rival, Apple Inc., into launching its iPhone and said the much-awaited modern mobile phone could face some very serious challenges if the popular iPod MP3 player is integrated into it.
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12.1.2007 Nortel may sue Apple over iPhone
NOT CONTENT with getting itself into hot water with Cisco over the iPhone name, Apple may find itself in deep water over the use of the term 'Visual Voicemail'.
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15.1.2007 Microsoft slams iPhone as irrelevant
Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
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22.4.2007 Apple iPhone vs. Nokia N95
Perhaps no other cell phone in history has been as anticipated as Apple's iPhone. From the moment it was announced by Apple to the time it was released six months later, the cell phone was a constant topic of rumors and speculation.
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21.8.2007 New iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 Hacked Before Release
Apple's latest effort to thwart iPhone and iPod touch hacking futile.
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10.11.2007 Microsoft won't launch iPhone rival
Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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9.1.2008 iPhone 3G: Initial reaction
I’ve had my iPhone 3G for about two hours, not enough time to do anything resembling a review, but I wanted to blog some of my early observations. (Pictured are Rob Parker and I waiting in line in Atlantic City).
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11.7.2008 Apple teaches iPhone 3.0 new tricks
The first round of news out of today’s Apple event has to do with a “major update” to the iPhone and iPod Touch operating system.
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17.3.2009 Windows 7 Theme & UI for iPhone
First of all i’d like to thank spintek and ebl4287 for releasing such an awesome Windows 7 theme for iPhone. Before getting started confirmed that your iPhone is Jaibreaked and you have installed OpenSSH in your iPhone through Cydia.
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19.8.2009 New Features in iPhone OS 3.1 Firmware
The final version along with general availability of the highly anticipated iPhone OS 3.1 firmware is expected to be announced on September 9th, in Apple’s “Rock iPhone OS 3.1 and Roll” event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
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7.9.2009 Microsoft CEO Takes On Apple's iPhone
Ballmer denounces the upcoming smartphone as uninteresting without the Apple name on it. Surprise, surprise. Steve Ballmer isn't exactly a huge fan of Apple's forthcoming iPhone.
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18.1.2007 Verizon Said No to Apple's iPhone Two Years Ago
This week, Verizon Wireless revealed to reporters that it had been approached by Apple roughly two years ago for a partnership deal with the iPhone but later rejected Apple's proposal. Verizon Wireless vice president Jim Gerace said in a statement that the terms that Apple presented were not mutually beneficial.
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30.1.2007 Microsoft working feverishly on answer to iPhone?
Thanks to pacpis for this post. You've already seen bits and pieces of this morning's Today Show, but another segment in the broadcast managed to grab a trip inside Microsoft's Mobile Design Lab where engineers and "audio geeks" look to be hard at work as they try to "redefine cool."
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30.6.2007 Could Windows Home Server be Microsoft’s iPhone?
Microsoft just might have a hit on its hands with Windows Home Server when the first Home Server models debut this fall.
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2.8.2007 Apple may nuke iPhone apps remotely
Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked.
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7.8.2008 O2 wins Apple iPhone deal - at a hefty price
Mobile operator O2 is preparing to unveil Apple's much anticipated iPhone in the UK tomorrow. But serious questions are being raised in the City about how much ground it has had to give away to Apple in order to clinch the deal.
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18.9.2007 Apple monster update fixes iPhone, Safari, Mac OS X flaws
Apple has issued a monster update with patches for about 50 security vulnerabilities affecting iPhone, Safari and Mac OS X users.
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1.8.2007iPhone 3G unlock shown live to the web
As previously reported on Neowin last week, the iPhone dev-team has announced they've figured out how to unlock the iPhone 3G for use on any GSM
network you have in your country. The patch will be released on New Years Eve and will require an iPhone that is running 2.11.07 baseband or lower and
will have to be jailbroken. For those of you who were wondering how this is done, there was a demonstration of "yellowsn0w" (the codename for the
unlock) shown live to the Internet by a member of the Dev-Team Blog named MuscleNerd. He used Qik on an iPhone 2G which allowed everyone watching to
communicate with him and ask questions along the way.
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22.12.2008UltraSn0w unlocks any 3G iPhone
The iPhone Dev Team has released a video demonstrating a new unlocking method for all iPhone 3G's. The new unlock will be able to unlock the 3G
iPhone running 3.0 firmware regardless of baseband or bootloader, where in the past has prevented future unlocking of the iPhone. The new tool,
replacing the previous YellowSn0w, will be called UltraSn0w on Friday, after Apple has released the 3.0 firmware and can make last minute adjustments.
UltraSn0w will both unlock and jailbreak the iPhone. Jailbreaking is what allows the device to run unsigned applications that are not distributed by
Apple. This new method will work on the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G running 3.0.
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17.06.2009iPhone to go multi-carrier in Canada next month
Reports from The Globe and Mail indicate that the iPhone will go multi-carrier next month in Canada, opening up to Bell and Telus. Previously only
Rogers and Fido, both operating under Rogers, have owned the exclusive contract from Apple to sell the iPhone in Canada, under their GSM network.
Bell and Telus, both companies recently joined to create a larger HSPA (high-speed packet access network) in Canada, will soon be able to offer
consumers the Apple iPhone 3GS, as early as next month. Currently both companies operate under the CDMA channels, while Rogers and Fido operate
under the popular GSM/HSPA network.
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06.10.2009UK O2 users now able to unlock iPhones
O2 confirmed today that from November 10 all O2 customers in the UK will be able to unlock their iPhone devices for use on other networks. The unlock
will be free for pay monthly customers at any time during their contracts but O2 will charge a one-off £15 fee for Pay & Go unlocking at the end
of 12 months after purchase. O2 customers can complete an unlocking form and O2 will unlock the device within 14 days. O2 were quick to stress that
existing pay monthly customers will need to honour the remainder of their contracts despite the ability to unlock. Unlocking is a process that allows
users to place a non-O2 sim card into the iPhone device.
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10.11.2009Free iPhone SIM Unlocking Software Available (iUnlock)
The folks over at iPhone Dev Wiki posted a free SIM unlock tool for the iPhone. Similar to the other solutions, this software-only solution should
allow you to SIM unlock your iPhone, allowing to use any GSM cell phone carrier. In the U.S. this limits your alternative choice to T-Mobile (over
AT&T), but in other countries, GSM carriers are far more common.
The software is being mirrored (
Gizmodo
mirror) by a number of locations along with downloadable source code. Tutorials are still being developed but some early
instructions have become available.
More download links and information
has been
compiled in this forum thread by ascham87.
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12.09.2007Software Developers Successfully Unlock iPhone
Those waiting for a solution to use the iPhone on a network other than AT&T may have found it: a six-man team has claimed to crack the SIM lock. This
means the iPhone will work on T-Mobile and other GSM carriers overseas...
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24.08.2007iPhone dev team confirm 3G iPhone unlocked for all networks
The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly
application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the team like QuickPwn. The update will be released on New Years Eve and will
require a jailbroken iPhone and 2.11.07 baseband or earlier. Jailbreaking is a method of unofficially hacking the device and allowing it to run 3rd
party applications not available on Apple's official AppStore. The latest iPhone 2.2 software updates the baseband beyond 2.11.07 and it is
recommended that if you want a 3G unlock that you do not update to 2.2 using iTunes alone.
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16.12.2008iPhone now software unlocked in 32 countries and 69 carriers
With the European and Asian iPhone rollouts still months away, is it any wonder to find the little guy venturing out on the mean, GSM streets all on
his own? According to that list above compiled by the iPhone Dev Team, the
freebie iPhone software
unlock has now been tested to work in 32 countries and 69 national carriers -- a list which is changing by the minute. Testing is based on calls
in/out, SMS in/out, EDGE/GPRS access, and voicemail access. Not Visual Voicemail, naturally, but the ability to receive notifications alerts and check
voicemail messages. As usual, we won't link you directly to the iPhoneDev community in accordance to their request for uh, anonymity.
Update: Make that 42 countries and 90 local carriers according to our readers! They've unlocked their own phones on the additional
country/carrier combos: New Zealand/Vodafone, Spain/Moviestar, Poland/Orange, Czech Republic/Vodafone, Bahrain/Batelcom/MTC Vodafone, Israel/Cellcom,
Hungary/T-Mobile, Belgium/Proximus/Base/Mobistar, Kuwait/Wataniya, and Ireland/Meteor. Note: the iPhoneDev list included Telus (with a note that it
won't work) and double-counted India. Any more dear readers?
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13.09.2007No breakthrough in efforts to unlock the iPhone
Hackers are working to unlock
Apple's iPhone, but the job
appears to be more difficult
than initially expected.
Hackers had hoped that
modifying the iPhone's
bootloader -- the program that
runs before the operating
system is loaded -- would
unlock the handset. But that
turned out to be a dead end,
as the bootloader code must be
signed using a 1,024-bit RSA
private key employed by Apple,
according to an update
released last week by hackers
working together on the
#iphone IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) channel.
Now
the hackers on #iphone are
working to create an assembler
utility for the iPhone's
processor. "This is our last
major hurdle to overcome in
order to write programs for
the phone," they said last
week.
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16.07.2007On New Years Eve, iPhone 3G Unlock to go public
Yellowsn0w is the codename to the iPhone 3G unlock. Yesterday, the Dev-Team announced that they have officially unlocked the 2.11.07 baseband on the
iPhone 3G. Users of the 2.2 firmware update do not have the 2.11.07, and will not be able to unlock their devices (the Dev-Team has previously told
users not to upgrade if you wanted to get your phone unlocked).
Yellowsn0w (the codename to the unlock software) will be available for
all users in Cydia, so no restore will be necessary. Since it will be installed via Cydia, it does not matter if you have a PC or Mac.
So, from now until the estimated launch date of New Year's Eve, the Dev-Team will put this software under extensive testing and QA. They have said
before that until it is one-hundred percent stable, they will not release it to the general public, because they do not want to harm the device.
Complete instructions for unlocking will be given upon launch of the software. Just do not update past version 2.11.07 of the baseband.
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18.12.2008iPhone 3.0 gets video MMS
The iPhone is getting a major upgrade in the summer with iPhone firmware 3.0, including a lot of new features, some already offered by extra apps in
the AppStore, but pre-loaded and free for the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. One of the new exciting features that hackers were able to unlock is
Video MMS. Users can send, receive and playback video directly from their iPhone to iPhone, meaning both MMS and recording capabilities will be
available in the summer.
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04.04.2009Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlock hacking
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said today that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has
officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks.
At a London Apple retail store where
he announced the iPhone's Nov. 9 U.K. debut, Jobs responded to a question about whether Apple would put a stop to the unlock hacks that have
mushroomed recently. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," said Jobs. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them
breaking in."
Several unlock hacks have been unveiled in the last few weeks that let users swap the iPhone's included SIM card
with one from another cellular service provider so the phone can make calls on that carrier's network. With the iPhone limited to domestic sales
until November, unlocking is the only way consumers living outside the U.S. have been able to use their phones.
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19.09.2007Hackers unlock newest iPhone software, but 3G model still tied to AT&T
The group of hackers known as the "iPhone Dev Team" has struck once again, providing an update to its iPhone unlocking tool that works with
Apple's new 2.0 software release...
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21.07.2008Apple to Sell Unlocked iPhone in France
While some iPhone users in the United States are busy playing a cat-and-mouse game with Apple in order to unlock the device, mobile operator Orange
will begin selling an unlocked an iPhone in France next month. This is due to a French law that prohibits exclusively bundling a handset with a
wireless carrier...
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17.10.2007Telus hopes to provide an alternative to high-priced iPhone in Canada
Canada's top wireless mobile phone service provider plans to offer the HTC Touch Diamond phone to its customers later this summer, which will mark
the North American premiere of this model...
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07.07.2008Apple iPhone 3G unlocked already
A group from Brazil has managed to unlock Apple's iPhone 3G handset just days after its release. The unlocked iPhone is displayed and demonstrated
in an online video on a Portuguese-language news blog. An unlocked iPhone can be used with any Sim card and service provider.
IPhone user
Bruno MacMasi said in an interview with Gizmodo that the unlocking process involved modifying the Sim hardware so that the International Mobile
Subscriber Identity can be overwritten and removed from the original network. A similar process was used to unlock the original iPhone last year.
Separately, a group of researchers known as the iPhone Devteam has released the first 'jailbreak' software releases for the iPhone 3G and the
iPhone 2.0 software update. The 'jailbreak' term refers to the process of removing the software controls which prohibit users from installing
software outside of the iPhone App Store.
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17.07.2008Buffer Overflows Are Top Threat, Report Says
Web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection may be widespread, but old-fashioned buffer overflow bugs are the
most common flaws reported, according to new vulnerability research from Telus.
And in case you were wondering, Microsoft's
aggressive initiative to shore up its product security appears to be paying off -- the level of severity of bugs in the software giant's products is
declining significantly, according to a security research arm of telecommunications firm
Telus.
Telus, which provides vulnerability research analysis to most of the 20 top security vendors --
including IBM ISS and McAfee -- bases its data on vulnerabilities reported in enterprise-class products. The company historically hasn't released
that data to the public, but last week it discussed some of the findings at the
SecTor
security conference in Toronto.
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27.11.2007iPhone 3GS gets jailbroken and unlocked
Purplera1n, unrelated to the Dev Team, has come out with a solution to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS for both Windows and Intel Mac computers. The
jailbreak allows users to download Cydia on their iPhone to install unofficial applications on their device. The jailbreaking solution provided by
purplera1n still does not allow Winterboard to be used as of yet. The method installs an application called Freeze onto the device; this installs and
unpacks Cydia. Users who install Cydia onto their device can then proceed to install UltraSn0w which was recently released to unlock the iPhone 3G,
now unlocks the iPhone 3GS.
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06.07.2009Apple Issues Warning on iPhone Unlocking (Updated)
Apple has issued a statement today that programs available for
the iPhone to SIM unlock it could cause "irreparable damage" to the device.
Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone
unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone
becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.
Apple plans to release the next iPhone
software update later this week which will include the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.
It appears the statement only refers to SIM
Unlocking your iPhone to allow it to use networks outside of AT&T. It would appear that 3rd party hacks (Ringtones, Applications) would not cause the
same problems.
One forum user
indicates it is possible to reverse the SIM Unlock by reflashing the firmware but must be done manually at this time.
Update: A rough
guide to relock your iPhone, ahead of the software update.
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25.09.2007Legal Worries Delay iPhone Unlocking Software
Fear of litigation has led to an indefinite delay in the planned Saturday release of software to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said Saturday that he received a phone call about 3 a.m. Saturday
local time from a man claiming to be from O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law firm, calling on behalf of AT&T. The firm has worked with Apple
in the past.
The man informed McLaughlin that if he posted the unlock code, he could be sued for copyright infringement and for
dissemination of Apple's intellectual property (IP).
McLaughlin was not completely awake when he took the call and did not get
the full name of the person on the other end, he said. The man presented "friendly advice," but because of the timing of the call and the fact that
it came on a personal mobile phone that McLaughlin never uses for business, it felt more threatening than friendly...
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