The race to get the first free iPhone unlock out into the wild seems to be over, and the winner is… the consumer?

In what has turned in to some form unofficial horse race, multiple teams have been working towards getting out a hack to unlock the mega-popular Apple iPhone.  iPhoneSIMFree got out of the gates first with a software solution, but at $99 a copy, it didn’t take long for other groups to strip down their work and figure out how it did what it did.

Sure enough, the iPhone Dev team figured it out and has released the solution for free.  Known as iUnlock, it was released as a ZIP file via their wiki and people immediately set about writing documentation for it, essentially killing the market for iPhoneSIMfree before it had even really gotten started.

Now a GUI (Graphic User Interface) is being added, making it even easier to release your beloved iPhone from the manacles of AT&T.  With the exception of the video voice mail, which is an AT&T exclusive function, all other portions of your phone should work with the carrier you got your SIM car from.

All of this is of course well-and-good until Apple releases a firmware update, killing the hack and everyone starts all over.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 8:56 am under Apple.

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