According to the guys at Engadget, the Apple iPhone has been successfully unlocked.
Here is a look at this amazing breakthrough:
It’s high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It’s all over, guys.
While Engadget goes out of it ways to try to legally distance itself from these claims, I think its pretty clear that the iPhone can now be used on almost any GSM network.
Go to the Engadget post to see the rest, including an explanatory video.
What does this mean for Apple and Cingular (The new AT&T)? I think it means that these companies may have to rethink their exclusivity agreement.
It only took hackers two months to open and unlock the iPhone. Assuming Apple and AT&T can figure out how to relock it, it’s likely that it will only take another two or three months for some mobile geeks to open the device up again.
When Apple started advertising the iPhone, it promised that the iPhone would offer the full Internet.
Well, an unlocked iPhone is a device that is certainly more open to the full Internet. It looks like the iPhone may be living up to its hype in some ways that Apple and AT&T never intended.
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Wow! I heard that one of the guys that unlocked the iPhone is a 16 year old!
There’s no way to truly “lock” a device, because people will always find a way around the software and hardware configurations.
What’s next?