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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Phones

All Those Unlocked iPhones May Be Costing Apple $300 Million

9:00AM Jason Chen | Both Fortune and Marketwatch are saying that all the unlocked iPhones, which make up about a third of the total phones sold, may be costing Apple US$300 million in future revenue kickbacks from mobile phone providers. And if Apple doesn’t stop the unlocking madness, what’s the incentive for a provider to pony up that revenue sharing in the first place? [Fortune and Marketwatch - Thanks David!] More »
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Phones

A Third of iPhones are SIM Unlocked, Guesstimates Say

7:30AM Jason Chen | According to estimates based on carrier’s numbers, only 2/3 of iPhones are “legally” activated, which means 1/3 of all iPhones sold are SIM unlocked and being used sans carrier contract. Here’s how they arrived at this number. More »
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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DVD Jon and Other Hackers Reverse Engineering the iPhone Sim Free Unlock (But Not the Dev Team)

9:40PM Jesus Diaz | After its commercial release, hackers all over the world are attempting to reverse the iPhone Sim Free software unlock by sniffing packets and analyzing the IPSF server traffic. Even DVD Jon is after them, according to sources deep in the effort. They are advancing at a fast pace and the crack may be ready as soon as tonight. However, not everyone is trying that route: part of the iPhone Dev Team is still independently working on their own unlock. More »
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iPhone Software Solution Works But It’s Not Universal

11:30AM Jesus Diaz | The first free iPhone unlock software has been sold and successfully installed today by Mr Paul Taylor, from the UK. Giz was there as an exclusive witness, but when things went badly and the process failed repeatedly giving a “baseband communication error” I jumped in to help. Lucky me, I found the solution after some troubleshooting, and I am afraid that it means the software unlock doesn’t work with all configurations. [Updated Sept. 11, 02:52AM EST: iPhone Sim Free has issued an application update to fix the problem we discovered during unlocking. Jump to see their statement.] More »
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