Bittabola's Sandbox » iPhone http://sandbox.bittabola.com Testing, testing... © Half-Life Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:08:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 iPhone 3G and a SIM proxy http://sandbox.bittabola.com/uzbekistan/iphone-3g-and-a-sim-proxy/ http://sandbox.bittabola.com/uzbekistan/iphone-3g-and-a-sim-proxy/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:52:46 +0000 Bittabola http://sandbox.bittabola.com/uzbekistan/iphone-3g-and-a-sim-proxy/ I now have a iPhone 3G and because it is imported from USA and therefore locked, I can’t use it in Uzbekistan. But there is a workaround to this problem – using a SIM proxy. It is a hardware chip which is inserted between the phone and the SIM card. The proxy constantly tells the phone that the SIM card is from AT&T even if it is not. This way the iPhone works but has some drawbacks – it sometimes loses signal and GPRS/EDGE/3G connection is unreliable.

Recently a hacker group called Dev-Team announced that there is a software unlock coming to iPhone 3G – you simply install a modified firmware to the iPhone and it works with all operators around the globe. Without any chips and drawbacks. The hack will be released on New Year’s Eve.

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