Five Free iPhone Unlocks from CrunchGear and WirelessImports

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1. Michael Arrington
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

   errr, you mean four free unocks. I get one.

2. Tim
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

   Sounds cool, but how do we know the phones will continue to work later? Can’t apple just create some workaround so that in the future it won’t work with another service provider?

   Unless I am mistaken, the unlock makes it so that you can use the iPhone with Spring, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. ?

   Sounds great. Hope it stays that way, and it is not just until they do their next software update.

   Tim McCormack
   iRent2u.com - the Online Rental Marketplace

3. John Biggs
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

   you can unlock it to work with t-mobile in the US and almost any GSM carrier elsewhere around the world. Regarding the workarounds and updates - PRESUMABLY this is will survive an update, but nothing is certain. Besides, all you have to do is dress up like steve jobs. We’re not making you get a CG tattoo like Mike.

4. Film Asia
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

   Magnificent products for the readers to win. Too bad I don’t have one.

5. Allen Stern
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

   Mike - what good is an unlock now unless you are willing to pay the contract break fee. I don’t get why so many who are already locked to ATT are so willing to want to unlock the phone. Except maybe for overseas usage perhaps.

6. John Biggs
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

   http://code.google.com/p/independence/ - presumably you also did this to your iPhone earlier.

7. Word Hugger
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

   Hah, nice contest. Good luck to the winners.

8. Fabian Schonholz
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

   I wish I was slimmer. And taller. And slimmer. And taller …

   But I have a reality distortion field, … does that count?

9. Michael Arrington
   

   September 10th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

   Allen - you are way too practical sometimes. It’s cool. Therefore I want it.

10. Allen Stern
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Yea — here is the conversation at the SXSW:

    Dude 1 - Yea boy my iphone is unlocked, I even got the tshirt
    Dude 2 - Oh, mine isn’t, I just use it normal
    Dude 3 - I don’t even have an iPhone - I will go find someone else to talk to

    Fine Woman walks over - hey boys! Any of you unlocked?

    Dude 1 - oh yea I am totally unlocked!

    Dude 1 wins Fine Woman

    

    End of Play

11. rc
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    great!

    RC

    trading tennis blog

12. bfd
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    I have an iPhone and AT&T service - don’t really feel the need for an unlock. It would be more expensive for the data plan on other networks. Also, 3G is a battery hog. Have fun!

13. Steve Ballmer
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Yeah, but can you wipe it and install windows mobile?

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

14. Anatoly
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    Hmm, what reality distortion field inducer are these guys smoking?

    $99 for a software unlock, that could potentially be made useless by any apple firmware update…

    I predict someone will buy one, then reverse engineer what its doing, and sell that for much less.

15. Alex Hillman
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    Doesn’t look like Steve Jobs, but he does look like Apple Fanboy #1 Kevin Rose:
    http://flickr.com/photos/dange.....356133865/

    Does that count for anything?

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    September 10th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

    Why get them free…when you are going to get them for

    $99

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17. Tool Man
    

    September 10th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Will the phone still work after the update?
    Will apple still support it?

18. Chris J. Davis
    

    September 11th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    Yeah, what no one seems to think it is important to report is that you get one unlock for your 99 dollars. If Apple releases an update that locks your phone again, you have to pony up the 99 again to get back your freedom.

    Check out http://www.chrisjdavis.org/excuse-me for more.

19. reader
    

    September 12th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Hey, this guy got it working in Germany:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9K2kCawhw

    iPhone using ePlus