Posted by l33tdawg on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 12:00 AM (Reads: 13)
Source: Tech Logg
New software hack turns the iPhone into a prepaid cellphone but still only with AT&T/Cingular.
One of the greatest complaints about the release of Apple’s iPhone was the locking of the phone to an AT&T two-year contract.
While Jon Lech Johansen, the software engineer who first developed the crack of DVD’s copy protection, has been able to develop a hack that activates the iPhone so that it can at least play music and perform WiFi tricks without the AT&T contract, the phone remained locked so that it could not be used to make phone calls.
The latest hack moves the iPhone one step closer to cellphone-nirvana of being able to link up with any cellphone network service provider. While it’s still not there just yet, the ability of this new hack will at least bring cost control back into the hands of the consumer.
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