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December 21, 2008 6:05 PM PST

iPhone 3G Unlock Video Demo Posted

by CNET staff

The iPhone dev team has released a video demonstration of the iPhone 3G unlock, which is due to be released on December 31, 2008.

The video is embedded below, but can also be seen on the iPhone dev team blog. It shows an AT&T SIM-locked iPhone 3G being unlocked, then successfully accepting a T-Mobile SIM card and receiving a call.

The unlock process looks pretty simple, requiring only a script to be run from a connected computer (a system running Mac OS X in the video). "MuscleNerd," who posted the video, claims that a daemon will obviate the need to enter any terminal commands in the final release of the unlock tool.

This unlock method will be available only to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier--this is the baseband version that shipped with iPhone OS 2.1. You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware.

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by cnet.aaron December 22, 2008 9:29 AM PST
w00t!

I, for one, am very pleased to see this happening. Way to go Dev Team!
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by james95363 December 22, 2008 12:22 PM PST
I LOVE IT TOO. although im not goin go to used it, but i got my brother, whos on the t-mobile network, and he is really hyped about it. Does anybody know if he is going to be able to use the TZones?
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