Don’t Unlock Your iPhone
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If you have an iPhone, or your getting an iPhone, and you are planning on unlocking it so that you can use it with a network that has not been authorised I reccomend that you reconsider.
Apple has said that unlocking your iPhone could cause unrepairable damage if you ever update your iPhone with the Apple Updater once your iPhone has been unlocked.
It is being said that if you unlock your iPhone and then try and update it it will corupt your iPhone, making it iripairable, and useless. I am encouraging iPhone owners not to be tempted to unlock their iPhone.
The iPhone was released in the United States on June 11, and since then has been bought my thousands of people wanting a taste of the high tech touch screen latest gadget.
The next Apple Update includes allowing iPhone users to purchase music tracks from iTunes directly to their iPhone. A member of Apple staff said that you will own a 270 pound brick if you unlock your iPhone, and joked that they are in a cat and mouse war with hackers, yet are not sure if they are the cat or the mouse.
So there is your warning. If you own an iPhone or you are going to own one in the near future, do not unlock or your iPhone may become corrupt.
Tags: iphone, unlock, hack, at&t, phones, mobile, carrier, problems, update, warning, lockergnome, chris piriillo, internetnut
3 Comments
xkorpse
October 21st, 2007
at 10:55am
Uhmm, yeah. One thing I’d like to point out is that Apple created the update for the sole purpose of keeping phones locked. Notice much different?
I didn’t think so. If you look at the update’s code, it makes it so that if you aren’t with AT&T it runs into an OS X error and crashes the system.
Macintosh sure has a few crackers (not hackers) on the team.
Tolik
March 15th, 2008
at 4:07pm
Hey, i think that you are right because really i wouldn’t risk my iPhone and i really really really think that you give great advice to everyone so when I buy my iPhone, i will take consideration. Thanks Chris for blogging this I think that you helped a lot of people with this post.
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icrap
May 5th, 2008
at 2:39am
The phone locks up because the interface used is a piece of crap. I suppose the fact it has to be broken to be useful means nothing. Seriously I would wait for the rim 9000 product that will be released shortly. The iPhone does not do anything well. a