Hmm, maybe I can use 1.1.3 after all
One of the recurring gotchas with an unlocked iPhone is that the newer features re-lock the phone every time. Because of that, I’ve kept mine at version 1.0.2, which works pretty well but lacks some newer niceties. The poor-mans-GPS is the one I really want.
Anyway, I keep an eye on the hacking progress, and there are ways of updating to at least 1.1.2, but they’re hairy and kinda iffy. Getting old, I guess, and less time available to hack.
Yesterday I was reading an article in BusinessWeek about the iPhone grey market, and there was a URL that caught my eye. I knew that there was a hardware hack called TurboSim that would also work. The idea is different than a software hack: the SIM chips sits on a module that lies to the phone about what SIM it has. Clever, eh?
The TurboSim was $110, so I dismissed it. Now, however, the BizWeek article links to PDACable, which has the same chip, now made in China, for $19.99. Now that’s more like it. If it works as promised, you just have to jailbreak and not unlock, a much easier prospect without the issue of baseband firmware.
Mine’s on the way. I’ll let you know.
Update 2/19/08: Save your money and use iJailbreak instead.
