Get ready, because the iPhone 3G unlock is coming to an iPhone 3G near you. The iPhone Dev Team have been able to break in the baseband processor. As you may remember from the first-generation iPhone unlock, this is big news because it means they have access to the core of the system, which gives them the ability to fully manipulate the iPhone 3G hardware and, therefore, unlock it. They gave us all the technical details and posted a demo of it in action:
This is a video of a custom application running on the iPhone 3G baseband, which is big news.
Nucleus is the operating system that runs on the PMB8878 baseband processor, we are using minicom running on the iPhone to talk to the basband via AT commands, the AT command shown is a custom AT command that has been inserted into the PMB8878 that starts an application on the baseband, one of the things that this application does is to lists the tasks (processes) that are running within Nucleus.
Now it’s just a matter of time before they come with the unlock and, at last, total carrier independence on compatible 3G networks. [iPhone Dev Team Blog]
Rafael
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 2:41 PMI’m not sure if you already publish or someone else had commented but Optus Customers can have their iphone unlocked for free. I just got my unlocked after a week of my purchase. :)
All you have to do is call them and ask to unlock your iphone :)
Ben Anderson
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 5:29 AMI want my $150 unlock fee back Telstra!!!