The breaking news today is that the folks over at the Bladox forums are reporting that they’ve completely unlocked the iPhone. By using a Turbo SIM card (available from Bladox) you can remotely encrypt your iPhone to accept any carrier’s SIM card. Testers are reporting this method allows you full calling, texting, and SMS/GPRS data capabilities.
Unlike other unlocking methods floating around this method requires no extra hardware like card readers and doesn’t rely on your SIM card version. Unlocking the iPhone through this method requires some hacking skills, but the instructions are pretty straightforward and easy to follow. First, though, your iPhone must have been activated through official or unofficial means.
You should probably also make sure that your mobile carrier doesn’t know what you’re doing. AT&T’s exclusivity agreement with Apple could make some trouble for you and your mobile carrier if any higher ups found out about it. So, you know, keep it on the downlow if you’re going to be trying this.
The Turbo SIM card costs about $80 and is available from Bladox. If you don’t want to wade through the 15 plus page forum topic on their forums, My iTablet has a condensed version of the basic instructions. Of course if you run into troubles, you’re probably going to want to visit their forums for specific help.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to stand back and see if someone is going to crash and burn before you take your turn the folks at Gizmodo have volunteered to be an iPhone hacking guinea pig. I for one am pretty excited to see where this leads and whether or not Apple will care.