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Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — 5_610x406.JPG If you want an unlocked 3G iPhone, you have a couple options. If you haven't upgraded to 2.2, you can try your luck with one of those SIM piggyback wafers; otherwise, you can try importing from a country like Hong Kong, which sells ... (more) Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way - Boing ...

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Vietnamita desbloqueia iPhones 3G via hardware
MacMagazine — ... Em uma viagem à sua terra natal, Dong Ngo, editor da CNET, encontrou uma loja de telefones que se tornou bastante popular no Vietnã por desbloquear iPhones 3G. O mais impressionante é que o processo não é feito nem via substituição do SIM (que pode causar problemas de compatibilidade com o iTunes) e nem muito menos via hack de software, ...

Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... used a chip reader to read information into a file. He then used a Hex editor to remove the locking data from the file, and after that, the chip got reprogrammed with the newly altered file. Now it was no longer programmed to work with only a specific provider. The chip then got reassembled into the motherboard, another painstaking process. As a last step, the technician put the phone back together, and it looked like nothing had been done to it. Unlocking iPhone 3Gs -- the Vietnamese way [Crave]

Vietnamese iPhone Unlock Isn't for the Faint of Heart [IPhone]
Gizmodo — ... All this for a mere $80! Call me crazy, but watching someone do this to my phone would be infinitely more satisfying than simply downloading a program to crack it. You'd feel like your phone really earned its unlocking. [Crave via ...

Unlocking the iPhone 2.2, Vietnamese-Style
Ubergizmo — ... A Small shop in Vietnam has an risky approach to unlock the phone: remove the chip and and change the locking setting by reading the chip data to a computer, changing the unlock data and rewriting the modified data to the phone... and re-assembling the phone like it never was taken apart. It's risky for the phone, but it's even riskier for the shop owner Tuan An: if he fails, he promise to give a new phone to the owner. So far, he fried only two iPhones while testing his method. (via CNET) ...

Jailbreaking iPhone could pose threat to national security, Apple claims
iPhone Atlas — ... (A personal note: The only purpose of altering of the chip, via software or the hard way, I've known of so far is to unlock the phone, which allows it to work with other carriers other than AT&T.; Jailbreaking doesn't necessarily mean unlocking and therefore is ...