3 posts tagged “turbo sim card”
Yesterday we reported how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the Web with it. You just have to use a TurboSIM card (like I did) and, according to the iPhone Sim Free people, any restored iPhone with their paid software installed (we have been unable to test this. )
I was too tired to think about trying this yesterday, but today I put my TurboSIM card with the Vodafone SIM and, as you can see in the video, it works great. The iPhone is now exactly in the same state as it was for me before the software update: it can send and receive calls, SMS and mails, as well as surf the Web.
The iPhone Sim Free people, who previously said their paid software unlock will work despite firmware updates, is claiming now that if you downgrade to firmware 1.0.2 your non-AT&T SIM will work just fine. I've tried this but couldn't get it to work. We are talking to them to see what may be happening.
Meanwhile, iPhone Dev Team is working full speed ahead on two things:
• Downgrading the baseband so they can unlock again the iPhones restored to version 1.0.2 from 1.1.1.
• Crating another free unlock that will work for version 1.1.1 of the software. According to them, both may be very near--now testing-- and they have put it forward to people with bricked phones to "be patient and hold on until we come with a full solution for 1.1.1 firmware."
11:56 AM ON SUN SEP 30 2007
BY JESUS DIAZ
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Our
man in Hong Kong got the inside story on the $1,765 (HK$13,800)
completely unlocked phone: like we suspected, the shop is using the the Turbo SIM card method that anyone can do. This is the same people who were trying to sell the "80% unlocked" iPhones —meaning "activated" and no calls— a while back.
G-World in Mong Kok is the only one store trying to sell these phones. They have 100 units in stock and until it sells them all, G-World says they won't offer their unlocking services, which they plan to sell for a whooping $767.
In other words, considering that the Turbo SIM card costs only $80, this is a total rip-off no matter how you look at it even if the phones work perfectly:
I played around with his iPhone and Bluetooth headset and everything works perfectly over HK's own GPRS/EDGE networks. YouTube notably still doesn't work (has anyone figured out why that is yet?) but everything else works perfectly. I tried making calls, sending SMS, surfing the web etc and all worked fine. And it's all in Chinese too, though of course there's no Chinese text entry. He was raving about how much he loved it and how perfect it was for them.
I would advise anyone wanting a JesusPhone out of the US to get a Turbo SIM themselves and follow up the publicly available instructions (more on that when we get our cards, which after a long delay are coming here on monday).
I found this at
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hong-kong-swindle/the-story-behind-the-100-unlocked-iphone-rip+off-290950.php
http://www.bladox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=542&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=195
According to the usual suspects, now you can 100%-unlock the iPhone using a Turbo SIM card, without depending on the version
of your current carrier card. Testers say it will give you full
calling, SMS and GPRS data capabilities with any network. You won't
need extra hardware, since it only requires you to modify the $80 blank SIM using your own iPhone.
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