Hacking the iPhone?

The instant iPhone was released to the public, hackers started to do what they do so well – hacking. The purpose of this hack is to allow you to use the phone with other phone companies.

Today, you can’t use the iPhone with any other phone company than AT&T, which means the phone won’t work in Europé.

Since the phone was released last Friday, the hunt is on to be the first to hack the phone’s activation process so that you can use it with any gsm/edge phone company.

Around the world people are waiting with baited breaths for news about this. There are websites set up to report the progress.

Why a company like Apple would lock themselves to one phone company is, of course, anybody’s guess. Why people would want to hack a seemingly substandard mobile phone is also anybody’s guess.

I hardly dare suggest it… buy Nokia or Ericsson? At least you won’t let Apple decide which phone company you can use then.

~ by stingwasp on July 8, 2007.