All iPhone SIM unlock methods

Finally the iPhone was unlocked, last week all blogs and gadget oriented sites were talking about two new hacks, one of them I even started but didn’t have the right tools to open my iPhone, and the other wasn’t publicly released yet but will be very soon.

Well, basically there is three known ways to unlock the iPhone to use it with any operator worldwide, the first one is through Bladox TurboSim, which allows you to spoof the phone making it think it has a valid AT&T simcard and actually use your operator’s simcard. No need to disassemble your precious iPhone, just some hacks (you still need to jailbreak it and install the SSHd) with some code that runs on your iPhone and the Turbosim “adaptor”. The problem is to get your hands on TurboSIM, even if you are inclined to spend a thousand bucks to get out your hands on it, you will not be able to find any TurboSIM units. The guys at Bladox had a surprise when someone found a way to use their product, a SIM toolkit developer product, to unlock the iPhone, then the demand was monstrous and they couldn’t keep up. Right now there is no schedule to the next arrival of TurboSIM units. Other bad thing is that Bladox is based in Czchec Republic, so shipping can be very expensive.

The second unlock method is a hardware based one with some advanced software moves, was announced by George Hotz, he was one of the member of the team that has been working on the iPhone unlock project since the launch date, The iPhone Dev Wiki. They have been working in developing tools and hacks and trying several different styles to hack the Iphone. One of the most known methods is through the use of JTAGs. The problem with this is that you need to disassemble your iPhone and make some soldering and scrubbing on the circuits (track A17), this is very advanced and besides that you still need to get your hands on hacking firmwares and extracting binary parts of existing softwares and so on. I even tried to do it, but unfortunately, I didn’t had the appropriate tools to open it.

And, finally the third method, comes from the guys at IphoneSIMfree.com which announced last Friday they successfully achieved the so much awaited software based unlock method. It was confirmed by Engadget that it works and the whole process takes only a couple of minutes, anyway you still need to activate your iPhone through iAsign or iActivator . The Iphone SIm Free.com also sad they will release the unlock software for sale this week, so I am waiting to the get access to it and tell you if it really works outside US.

Here is some pictures from Engadget

Gallery: iPhone unlocked

And the video that proves it really works :