Mac News And Rumors

The iPhone 3g has been arround for almost a month now and the unlocking possibilities are still unclear,

Some countries are offering the device factory unlocked but at some high prices, recently Pwnage Tool was released but this tool only lets you jailbreak this device, if you need to unlock the iPhone 3G there is a few options.

1. You can buy a sim card which makes the iphone believe your using an authorized one, like the one on the right form UsbFever. this one costs $34.99 and begins shipping today.

the best option if this where your choice would be to buy

This package from RebelSim which includes

• Sim Card
• Sim Cutter
• Sim Programmer

All this with World Wide Shipping for Only £37 $23

2. If you can wait a little you can purchase the Pre-Release of the iPhone Worldwide App for half its price “£24.99 $16″ which claims to be the first unlocking tool to be released for The iPhone 3G, we hope its soon.

this app appears to Software unlock the new iPhone also it includes an international dialing fix, and many other features, you can Pre-Buy it Here

Video after the Break

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In February, Apple’s COO, Timothy Cook said that Apple was “not  married to any business model” with regard to the iPhone.  Specifically, Apple’s has received some criticism about their  exclusivity contracts with specific mobile carriers, preventing  customers from easily using other networks.

 It appears this model appears to be eroding, at least in some  countries. A recent report claimed that the 3G iPhone would launch in  Italy as an unlocked phone, available for use with any carrier. The side  effect of this move, however, could be higher retail prices for the  iPhones. With the exclusivity deals Apple has in place, Apple earns a  portion of monthly subscription fees from their network partners,  such as AT&T. 

 Another report from Belgium makes identical claims that a 3G iPhone  will be arriving by the end of June. Again, the iPhone is expected to be  compatible with all Belgian operators, though is expected to launch on  Mobistar first as early as May. The decision may have been forced  upon Apple, however, as Belgium specifically prohibits the sale of  ”locked” mobile phones. 

Still, other reports have hinted at similar distribution models in India and Australia later this year. 

Despite technical measures in place to prevent the use of the iPhone on unauthorized networks, the practice of “unlocking” iPhones has become a big business with reportsthat as many as 400,000 unlocked iPhones running on China Mobile’s network.

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Digg founder Kevin Rose, whose first-generation iPhone rumors fell short of their mark last Spring, is citing different sources this year inpredicting that the 3G version of the handset will boast video chat capabilities.

During a 90 second segment of his weekly Podcast show “Diggnation” this past Friday,

Rose told viewers that Apple may be restricting third parties from authoring applications that run in both the foreground and background partly because it doesn’t want a competitor to its own mobile iChat application that will do just that.

More specifically, he claims that a 3G version of the iPhone hardware due in a few months will employ two digital cameras situated back-to-back

– one on the front side of the unit behind the transparent touch-screen, and a second one on the back of the handset as it exists today.
Combined with the mobile iChat application, the front-mounted cam will pave the way for live video conferencing over AT&T’s high-speed 3G wireless network with computer-based iChat users, as well as other second-generation iPhone owners, according to Rose.In the week’s leading up to last year’s iPhone introduction, the Digg founder cited sources in saying Apple would introduce the handset with a slide-out keyboard, two separate battery compartments, and make it available for both CDMA and GSM networks

– all of which turned out to be false.

Despite those misses, Rose has made some accurate predictions in the past, most notably his last minute reports of an iPod nano ahead of the player’s inaugural release in 2005.

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