Breaking: iPhone 100% Unlocked Using Turbo SIM Card

From Gizmodo - Now you can 100%-unlock the iPhone using a Turbo SIM card, without depending on the version of your current carrier card. The SIM card will give you full calling, SMS and GPRS data capabilities with any network. You won't need extra hardware, since it only requires you to modify the $80 blank SIM using your own iPhone.

The hackers are claiming that this method doesn't use card readers and it doesn't depend on your previous card version either, so it doesn't matter if it is a V1, V2 or V3. All of them will work fine. While the Turbo SIM-based method is not software-only, it seems simple and cheap enough for anyone to follow.

Nine Hacks That Will Make You the Master of Your IPhone

07.25.07 | 2:00 AM -

Only a few days after the iPhone went on sale, hackers were already kicking the wheels and checking under the hood to see if they could pimp out Apple's locked-down smartphone. After a month, they've made surprising progress. Wired has detailed some of the milestone hacks for what has been called "the most significant consumer electronics product ever."

Most of the hacks that have been publicized so far are aimed at controlling or enhancing your own iPhone, but a darker side has emerged too. A security firm announced a possible Wi-Fi-based browser exploit, which could give hackers access to an iPhone's microphone, surfing history and contact information -- and possibly website and e-mail passwords stored on the phone, too. Make no mistake: The iPhone is a magnet for hackers, both good and bad.

The hacks run the gamut from easy hacks almost anyone can do to advanced mods that require serious hardware and software skills.

Details at Wired.

iPhone Firmware Hints at New Apps, Widgets

July 30th, 2007 - The guys at iPhoneology has discovered several applications listed in the iPhone's firmware but are missing from the phone itself.



The ones found were:

* com.apple.unitconverter
* com.apple.widget.phonebook
* com.apple.widget.translation
* com.apple.widget.worldclock (potentially different from the Clock application)
* com.apple.mobile.radio

While all of these have lots of potential, most seem like they could just be direct ports from the Tiger Dashboard equivalents. The most exciting of these seems to be the mobile.radio, as it suggests the possibility that Apple may be looking forward to supporting streaming radio or hopefully, an FM tuner on the device.

Full details at iPhoneology.

Exploiting the iPhone

A group of security researchers at Security Evaluators have developed a toolchain for working with the iPhone's architecture (which also includes some tools from the #iphone-dev community), and created a proof-of-concept exploit capable of delivering files from the user's iPhone to a remote attacker. They have notified Apple of the vulnerability and proposed a patch.

A member of the team, Dr. Charlie Miller, will be presenting the full details of discovering the vulnerability and creating the exploit at BlackHat on August 2nd. Their site will be updated to reflect those details. In the meantime they have decided only to release general information about exploiting the iPhone.

Details at their Security Evaluators site.

How I put my old Cingular SIM in my iPhone and made it work.

For those who don't want to use AT&T to make voice calls on their phones, the HacktheiPhone site has step-by-step instructions on how to use an old Cingular SIM on the iPhone.

iPhone Calculator and BRAUN ET66 Similarities

Side-by-Side Comparison of iPhone Calculator and BRAUN ET66 (circa 1970s)

As shown in the photo above, the iPhone's UI is a definitive tribute to Dieter Rams and Lubs Dietrich circa 1977 Braun ET44 and ET66 (ET stands for “electronic calculator” or “elektronischer Taschenrechner” in German).

From Oyayubizoku.

iPhone v1.0 Bugs

Applehound has compiled a lengthy list of 68 software bugs they have discovered on the iPhone. The bugs range from minor display issues to application crashes and are reproducible by every iPhone users.

Complete list at Applehound.