January 22nd, 2008

Nope, no AT&T contract required for bring-your-own-SIM card plan

[photopress:attoops.jpg,full,center] Some people freaked out the other day when they saw that AT&T wanted to tack on a two-year contract to its “bring your own SIM card” plan. Why should I have to sign up for a contract when the entire rationale for contracts is to subsidize cellphone, which I’m providing? It was a typo. Relax. AT&T will not require you to sign up for any… → Read More

January 20th, 2008

AT&T will sell you just a SIM card – five American dollars, my friend!

I guess this is the simplest possible route short of getting a candy cell phone and pretending it’s real. AT&T is sending out just SIM cards for you to put into your already-unlocked or AT&T-restricted phones. You pay them five bucks and sign up for a contract (natch) and you get a tiny piece of plastic in the mail that tells the towers “yo, this phone’s AT&T… → Read More

August 21st, 2007

iPhone Unlocked, For Reals

There you have it, folks. The iPhone has been unlocked via hardware modification. Details on the hack are being withheld until next week where the ‘group’ believes they’ll have a software work around. Dare I say it? Should I purchase an iPhone now? The price did just drop and I don’t mind refurbs. Hmm. FULL HARDWARE UNLOCK OF IPHONE DONE [iPhone jtag] → Read More

July 19th, 2007

iPhone Now Can Use Any Cingular SIM Card

The folks at hacktheiphone have figured out how to use any Cingular SIM card in the iPhone, regardless of type or service plan. Heck, you can even drop an old one in there that doesn’t even work. → Read More