287 euro for unlocking an iPhone

A Lituanian website offers an unlockingservice for 287 euro, inquirer.net just reported. For that amount of money they unlock your iPhone. Lithuanian legislation allows the unlocking of mobile phones if the handset's IMEI code is not modified. Again this website has not proofed they really can do the trick. This Lituanian website published some vague soundless youtube stream on the web, but they actually don't proof anything at all. We wil wait and see....for us counts: No hard evidense = no proof = we don't believe it yet.

Europe, Asia, Australia order your unlocked iPhone now!

Q: What?

A: Yes, the wait is over: you now can order your unlocked iPhone at (please read on before you click the link. Or you can hit the back button to come back) phoneanywhere
Q: How much?

A: 700 us$ for the 4Gb version and 800 us$ for the 8GB version.

Q: Is this a genuine, real, brand new iPhone?

A: "Absolutely. Unlike the many Meizu brand imitations you will see elsewhere, this is the real

deal: an Apple iPhone sold by AT&T. Each iPhone is purchased brand new from the retail outlet. We must open the box to unlock the phone on your behalf, then make a single test call but we will take extra good care of your iPhone! We promise." says the site


Q: Will the iPhone work in my country with my phone provider?


A: "Chances are: yes. If your phone uses GSM technology meaning that it uses SIM cards then you should be good to go. This is the worldwide standard however certain networks are not compatible. CDMA and FOMA users will likely not be able to use the iPhone on their network. These networks are mostly used in the USA and Japan. Almost all of Europe uses GSM. Here's the down and dirty tech info: GSM Quad band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS/EDGE and can connect to other devices via: Computer via 30-pin iPod dock connector, Wi-Fi (802.11g) and Bluetooth 2.0." says the site


Q: Will the iPhone function properly after being unlocked?

A: "Yes. Visual Voice mail (exclusive to AT&T) is the only known exception, all features currently available on locked phones will be available on unlocked phones. You may need to call you provider once you get your unlocked iPhone to enter in the internet settings of your particular network before you can browse the internet"

Q: Is there anything I need to know before ordering?

A: "Yes, we're glad you asked. Firstly, the iPhone battery when it needs replacement years down the line... will need to be done by a professional. As the launch continues around the globe it is extremely likely that there will be a local service within your country to perform this task. It will however, not be free. Secondly, the iPhone we send you will work with iPhone software 1.0.2. While any future upgrade that you choose to download for the phone may not hinder the phone at all, we cannot guarantee that future downloads will not re-lock your iPhone. Therefor we encourage all users to stay on the 1.0.2 version of iPhone software and upgrade at their own risk."

Please tell us on this blog your experiences with the unlocked iPhone, and tell us your order and service experiences with this company (iPhone anywhere). Also please tell us in which country and on which provider networking you are using the iPhone. Thank you. It will help our blogreaders to take a better decision to do it or not. 800 us$ is a lot of money. Thanks, cheers wakuwaku.

TIP: don't pay 99$ unlock fee, get the hacked free software

The situation is this: Yesterday, iPhoneSimFree.com went to market with a 99US$ unlock application. Think about it guys. This application will also be hacked by hackers. Soon! Believe me, that's the normal lifecycle for this type of software . I think it takes some little time, and this smart unlocking application will be offered for free somewhere on the net. Also de 99US$ offer does not protects you from "relock" by an iPhone 1.03 update. My opninion is given, so the choice is yours.

Europe, Asia,Canada,Australia, New Zealand, unlock your iPhone for FREE !!

Q: What?
A: Your are a smart person to wait till this moment, because you can unlock your iPhone for free!
Q: What's new on this unlock?
A: Well it is free, as predicted before here on iPhone tips and tricks.
Q: What are the requirements?
A: An iPhone and running on version 1.02
Q: Where do I get the unlock information?
A: Simple, it is all here, instruction, files etc.
Q: Is it safe?
A: As of todays writing, this is beta, so run at your own risk! But the website states: "It should not do any damage to your phone anyway because you can easily reflash all the old original files."

Warning *** We are not responsible for any problems after executing the unlock the instructions *** But.... we are very very curious if you succeeded or not. Please share your experiences on this blog with other readers. thanks.

UPDATE1: According to Newsfactor's article:
The free software is not without controversy. A statement on the iPhone Dev Team's site states that David Harrison, known as HaRRo, is distributing the application resulting from "stolen source code." The site advises users who donated to Harrison to contact PayPal for a refund.
Harrison is denying he swiped anything. In an e-mail Wednesday, he wrote: "The[y] claim [I] stole code but yet it was all publicly released last night, [I] was just the first one to actually fix it all up (as it did not work yet) and bundle it into the app working."

TIP:Easy unlock app for free, no geek skills needed.

There is one thing to say about the free unlock, it is complicated to do it. Because I think, most of the iPhone buyers around the world are often gadget fans rather then tech geeks. My advise is to wait a split second more for an Easy unlock method. Why? because on a post today, Gizmodo announces a easy to use unlock program. They shows you how to unlock the iPhone and where no skills are needed.

Steps to do it:
*** Warning: you are on your own from this point***
1. Download the "add/remove programs" application as described here (click the back browser button afterwards.)
2. Wait a split second and watch for an update here on this post or on gizmodo

UPDATE [16 sept]: Please visit this post about the new GUI Guided unlock. It makes life (for the non-geek) much easier.

Till then, you have to deal with AT&T or like this pic for users in Canada, Australia, Europe,Asia : "no service". But if you don't have patients and have no geek skills, please click on ads on top of this page (sorry google guys but this is a functional advise) to get the easy unlock for between just 50US$ and 99 US$.

The geeky iPhone owners who recently updated their iPhone with the 1.1.1 firmware

The geeky iPhone owners who recently updated their iPhone with the 1.1.1 firmware were faced to several issue's. Especially the owners of unlocked iPhones and/or those who had added 3th party applications on it. Those lost most of the by Apple non-supported functionality, they added last weeks. An overview table is published here on wired compares the unlocked 1.0.2 version to 1.1.1 Apple's latest official update.

The good news is for the other, the biggest, group who just upgraded the virgin-unspoiled original iPhone. There is an bug found that let 1.1.1. users stream their music straight to the bluetooth headset!

Q. How can you make that working?

A. Just follow these steps.

1. Initiate a connection between your Bluetooth headset and the iPhone. Wait till the iPhone recognizes a connection from your paired headset.

2. Enter the Visual Voicemail interface under the phone application and select the "Audio" button from the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

(this button will instead say "Speaker", the Bluetooth headset is not properly paired to the iPhone or your Bluetooth headset has not initiated a connection with the iPhone.)

3. You should now have the option to "Change audio source" to either "iPhone Bluetooth Headset," "iPhone," or "Speaker Phone." Choose the first one. You just did the trick!

You should now be able to navigate to your iPhone's iPod application and begin streaming music to your headset.

TIPS: free iPhone webgames here

Bored this Sunday? Go on safari to this site and play some just released iPhone games. Actually it is a nice portal of free games for iPhone (and iPod touch) users.
This iPhone tip let you experience:
- Ad-supported but free games and include TicTac, Pair-o mania, Soduku, Bejeweled, Moodbuster and Mastermind among others.
- The games require no downloads
- The games are optimized for the Apple devices.
Have fun!

TIP: Easy unlock needs fake activation needed

To perform an unlock you need an activated iPhone. For those who has not already activated their iPhone with AT&T -and are not planning to- you need to conduct a fake activation. To do this, conduct these two steps:
*** warning you are on your own now***

1. you'll need to follow the excellent instructions at ModMyiPhone
2. download and install a program called iNdependence.

For example in case of you are an European, Asian, Aussie, Kiwi etc. and bought on your bussiness or holiday trip in the US an iPhone without an AT$T monthly plan (ofcourse). As far as I know you'll have to pay a US$175 early cancellation fee to get out of your AT&T contract but I am not pretty sure if you have to pay when you cancel it on the moment of purchase. Anyone got the answer?

It's done: Free GUI Guided iPhone unlock software, get it now

It is there and you can get it right now, for free. Anyone in the world can unlock their iPhone as simple as sliding the iPhone On/Off. The iPhone Dev Team just released software called AnySim. (which is actually the GUI version of iUnlock, but who cares) Little wait is needed for an Installer.app version, which they work on and is coming soon. With that you can pretty much download the file over EDGE or Wi-Fi and run it. With this reported (at 16 sept) version you still have to manually transfer the file to your phone.

*** warning, you are on your own from this point ***
Download it here at the iPhone Dev Team Wiki.
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It works like this:
1. upload all 3 files to your phone in some location you prefer
2. ssh in
3. run iUnlock_Reloaded (./iUnlock_reloaded)
be happy if its done
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The next thing is to keep the iPhone from relocking by firmware updates. TIP keep an eye on the posts before update your firmware.
Money TIP: You could consider to introduce the free unlocked iPhones now on the markets of US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand. It is a way ahead to Christmas;)

Fake China Apple iPhone

This fake iPhone is incredible FAKE. Watch this stream en pay attention to the used fonts and themes! The chosen font is cheap cheap cheap and ugly like hell. The chosen theme colors are soo worst, you can't imagine there are humans on this planet even selects those. Yuk!! But the phone case is very very alike the real thing. But you can exspect these appearences after the fake Steve's video's.

Poll result: 67% of our visitors are iPhone owners

Thanks to those who answered our poll. - I know these polls are not scientifically covered and maybe not really representative - But we have the feeling that, more than half (67%) of our blog visitors are actually iPhone owners and they are looking for the new iPhone tips and tricks. Which they sure can find on this blog ofcourse! The rest of our visitors has planned to buy one (27%) from where 9% are actually shopping around with the intention to buy an iPhone soon. Interessting is that 12% is waiting for the iPhone 2.0 version. They might be hoping for a faster 3G version, in fact there is nothing known about 2.0. And 6% of us are people who probably cannot affort to pay the AT$T bills and might have a geek background. They have intentions to buy and unlock the iPhone, choose their one carrier, apps etc. At least 8% visitors are non-US residents because they wait till the iPhone is available in their country. The first of them who have the honor are visitors from UK, Germany and France where they sell on the 9th of november this year.

UPDATED TIP: Google Calendar tailored for the iPhone

The Google Calendar team, along with the mobile team, released an upgrade to the Calendar interface on the iPhone. It is now tailored for the iPhone, and you can now see your different calendars in distinctive colors. You can see the new Calendar interface by going to http://calendar.google.com/ on your iPhone browser.UPDATE 29/09/2007:The suite of web apps Google Office is now mostly optimized for iPhone. Next to the reported Calendar update, these applications include Gmail, and Google Reader (rss). Here’s a handy list of links to the iPhone versions of Google Office apps: Gmail, Reader, Calendar

iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list

For archive’s (and sanity’s) sake I am compiling a running tab of iPhone web-apps, developments, tips, tutorials, helpful tid-bits, articles and more.
This page is a perfect one-stop shop for two types of people:
1) Those who currently have an iPhone and want in on the discoveries and web-apps being published but don’t have time to surf the internet like crazy.
2) Those who hope to get an iPhone some day, don’t want to miss out on the developments taking place right now and are not particularly looking forward to digging through archives.
Apps
Leaflets - iPhone Apps that grow on you.
Mojit - Web App Launcher
17 Powerful Bookmarklets for your iPhone
PocketTweets - Twitter for your iPhone
FlickIM - Chat and media sharing on your iPhone.
iGTD on your iPhone - Read the TUAW writeup here.
Box.net - for your iPhone. (duh).
SeeqPod - Play the internet’s hidden music on your iPhone for free.
Filemark Maker - Store high res images, text files, and PDFs on an iPhone.
iTweet - Another Twitter app
Media Temple Account Center - Custom interface for the iPhone
iPhone Apper
Native IM Client
installer.app - Install iPhone and update apps over wi-fi
Lights Off - The Game
The .Mac RSS Reader - Arguably the best one to use
Tutorials & Tips
How to put DVDs on the iPhone
Updating your “Sent from my iPhone” email signature
Spam-free email for the iPhone
Saving iPhone applications inside data URLs
iPhone Bookmarklets
Getting photos from Lightroom to your iPhone
Telekenesis - Controlling your Mac from your iPhone
iPhone Scrolling Tip - Use two fingers
9 Hacks To Make You Master of Your iPhone - Some lame, some helpful.
iFuntastic - Modding your iPhone for mere mortals.
NewsGator Mobil - Your RSS feeds on NewsGator & NetNewsWire optimized for your iPhone. Read on your iPhone and it syncs with your NetNewsWire app on your home computer. Read the blog post here.
How to Restart, quit frozen apps and Reset iPhone
25 iPhone Power Tips - Mac Life
How to encode movies and TV shows - To help save valuable space
iPhone vs. Panera Bread’s Free WiFi - How to get past the splash screen. By Mr. Shaun Inman.
Install Apps - Easily with no hacking skills required
Miscellaneous
iPhone Software Quriks - A running tab by Sean Sperte
iPhone Wallpapers - Greg is my hero
iTrapped - The new way to do iPhone contacts
68 Reproducable Bugs on the iPhone
Hide-a-Pod - iPhone anti-theft device
Will it Blend?
320 by 480 - More free iPhone Wallpapers
AT&T Marketing Settings - How to adjust your account so you don’t get spam from AT&T.
Mint Wallpapers - For your iPhone. Courtesy of our beloved Shaun Inman.
iPhone Pepper - Single Column viewing of Mint on your iPhone
A Mint Button - For faster viewing of your Mint stats
iPhone Loading Wallpapers - a photoset on Flickr
Hardware Accessories
Better Headphone Adapter for the iPhone
iPhone Gear - Cases, Screens, cleaners, etc…
Traditional Leather Case
Articles and Reviews
TUAW’s iPhone Page
A Week With the iPhone - A review by
One Line of Code - A little more optimization of your website your website for the iPhone.
Apple’s iPhone Battery Page - Get some info right from the horse’s mouth.
The Power of Good UI Design - Phil’s 1 year old masters the iPhone. FSJ wept.
Engadget’s iPhone Review
The New Frontier - Macworld article by John Gruber
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