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First iPhone 4 unlock released; requires a jailbreak

By | August 4, 2010, 8:55am PDT

Summary: The iPhone 4 has succumbed to the collective forces at the iPhone Dev Team who just released the first unlock for the iPhone 4. Three days after it was jailbroken, the iPhone 4 can now be unlocked.

The iPhone 4 has succumbed to the collective forces at the iPhone Dev Team who just released the first unlock for the iPhone 4. Three days after it was jailbroken, the iPhone 4 can now be unlocked.

The iPhone Dev Team posted ultrasn0w 1.0-1 on its blog today, which unlocks the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G. You first have to jailbreak your iPhone then add repo: repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia. Jailbreaking got much easier with Sunday’s release of JailbreakMe.com.

Unlocking the iPhone removes any carrier locks, like the one that locks it to AT&T here in the U.S. An unlocked phone can be used on almost any GSM network worldwide, including T-Mobile, for example.

Update: A video of the process in action:



Tip: MacNN, via PowerPage

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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