I finally got myself the Apple latest gadget, the notorious Iphone. I’ve been noticing lately that there are plenty of websites dealing with ways to unlock the phone. So I haven’t been really reluctant to buy it locked on AT&T, the American carrier. Beside as far as I have understood, anywhere around the globe where the iphone will be sold there will be an "exclusive" contract with a local carrier that will oblige the poor customer to sign a 12 months contract or something. I thought, what the hell, there is no reason to wait several months to buy it. Not mentioning the fact that in Europe and certainly in Iceland, the gadget will be unreasonably more expensive. It cost me $360 and a week and half days of waiting. I had the tutorial ready while receiving the package. It turned out that many steps of the unlocking process had been accelerated during the past few days. I had in my mind a 2 hours process composed by lines of code typed and a whole bunch of programs to run to get freed of the Apple and AT&T tyranny. I needed to run only 2 programs under Windows. The first one was ibrickr, that jailbreaked the iphone on itunes to skip the AT&T activation. A ridiculously easy to use program that need 5 or 6 clicks, some archives to be extracted and files to be downloaded. After the jailbreaking process finished. I was able to use every single features of the phone except the most important: Being able to phone with my Icelandic sim card. My first tutorial was explaining step by step the long process for my sim card to be recognized. It looked like a lot of hassle to get it done. Almost by coincidence I found in the application list of the website library, a program called AnySim v1.02. I gave it a chance, downloaded it, put it on the phone and launched it. A progress bar started running followed by an indication that the process might take some time. I went in the kitchen to make myself a coffee and went back in my room to find the machine unlocked. How cool is that?










Congrats on your gadget and your path to freedom!
I really hope some other companies will develop similar products (wasn’t Nokia doing that already in some kind of counter-campaign?) and kick Apple and their AT&T contract. People should be able to choose their gadget and phone company freely.