How to Unlock/Hack Apple iPhone 3G
Its not over a week for the Apple iPhone 3G to be released in the UK with records saying that Apple Sold around a million handsets in the first weekend. When the first Apple iPhone’s were released it took them 74days to reach 1 million sales but this time within a week the sales were met and Steve Jobs was quite happy about this.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CE
These new 3G handsets which are said to be released in India by this year end via Vodafone with a expected pricing of around 12000-15000Rs. Currently Apple iPhones 3G are sold in UK via AT&T services at 199$ for 8GB Model & 299$ for 16Gb model and extra charges for subscriptions, activations and monthly call charges which are also going to charge almost the handset’s cost. Free Apple iphone upgrades are available for older versions ie Firmwire 1.1.2 , 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 and these handsets were easily unlocked using a small trick under 5 minutes.
The new Apple iPhone version ie 3G is claimed to be non-unlockable but within 4days of its launch there are news that they were unlocked by 2 guys, check out the following video for more information and tutorial on how was this made possible.
Another company which offered unlocking services ie ziphone.org has also released a news saying that their Beta 7 version is capabling of unlocking the 3G version. Their status claims – patched and unlocked with all carriers supported now, though only 2 carriers are currently available in UK at the moment.
I’am these guys would find a way to jail break iPhones,because they can make money only till Apple launches it phone.This I feel would force Apple to launch iPhone world wide.Though the full potential of the iPhone can only be utilised with the correct networks which offer 3G services.
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Thats true but in India we cannot see all the working features before next year
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You r right Amit
i’ll wait till it reaches in India
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It would be tough to get unlocked 3g in India..
we would have to import from foreign
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had heard that iPhone was going to b launched on 11th of this month in India … had gone to the dealer too but was not available with him
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Apple has selected 2 service providers in all the 70 countries. thus in India its Airtel and Vodafone. Both are gonna launch Iphone this September
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yar do tell me thins…
can a iphone bought from gulf will work in india///
if it works then how….
plz contact mail id is humtuminobnd@gmail.com
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I have been using Rebel Simcard to unlock my iphone 3G since first day and its working fine, till the time no software unlock is available i would suggest all friends to use the rebel simcard.
New Delhi, India.
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Hi Guys, I am using Apple iPhone which I brought from USA. Now I am trying to use Aitel simcard in india.. But I am not able to unlock it, please let me know how can I unlock it.. Please.
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Dear Saurav I want to know from where did you get the rebel simcard and which network in india are u using.
I am on bsnl and have asked my cousin in usa t get me a 3g iphone locked.
He said he is not sure whether I will be able to use the same in India or not.
Can u guide me and let me know as to whether your iphone works on 3g or not.
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Nokia is going to launch Nokia 5800 which is a touch screen it looks even like iphone have almost all facilitiei iphone have and many more it would be a great provider of music especially…
Apart from this it comes with 8gb card expandable upto 16gb…
It perhaps have 3.2mp carl zessis optics and inbuilt memory of 81MB
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I have bought the iphone that is hacked and installed with opera software .Please tel me how to restore the default factory setting.
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can you help me to unlock my iphone3G
got it from US wanna use it in India
model number MB046LL
version is 2.2.1 (5H11)
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Visha,
I am also in the same boat, if you could find an option do let me know
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Hello,
I have tried sevral diffrent diffrent option to unlock iPhone 3G 2.2.1 [5H11], but unable to unlock it, even I also tried low level programing, we all have to wait for iPhone devlopment team to release next version of yellowsn0w.
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Sahil Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@Maneet,
I have a guy who can unlock 3GS 2.2.1
Just temme where do you stay so that it would be easier to correspond.
My mail id is sahil.power@gmail.com
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Hey can you post how to update iphone to 2.2 firmware and if i do it will my iphone get locked again,
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hey people from india to unlock you iphone just go to gaffar market in karol bagh and ask them to do it ………
it will cost you 100 or 150 buks !!!!!
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[...] Unlocking a iPhone would take not more than 10minutes in total but its not officially allowed, but in this case it can be allowed and here is a reason which i personally feel is true. AT&T and other networks in US & UK offer this handset under a contract which means that you need to continiously pay some monthly charges along with handset EMI for 2 years duration during which the company is going to recover the handset cost and also make money through the consumer calls. But in India, Airtel is selling the handset for 3x times the US price of 199$ which means that Airtel is already over charging their subscribers, hence they dont have to worry even if their customers move away to other networks after purchasing the handsets from them by unlocking. Related Info:Legal Apple iPhone in India through VodafoneApple iPhone Launch in India via Airtel & VodafoneBookings for 3G iPhone in India Started with VodafoneApple iPhone India Price 31000Rs Will you buy it?Buy Unlocked Iphone in IndiaUnlocked Apple iPhone in India Rumours Just IncreaseSBI Credit Card holders offered Unlocked iPhone in India We will send you some more information related to Airtel allows Unlocked iPhone in India [...]