Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @12:06AM from the slim-and-elegant-bricks dept.

iCry writes "It was rumored last week, and Apple has now confirmed it: 'Apple said today that a firmware update to the iPhone due to be released later this week "will likely result" in SIM-unlocked iPhones turning into very expensive bricks... So what are users of SIM-unlocked iPhones to do? Not run the latest software update, that's for sure. Users can instead pray to the hacking deities — the famed iPhone Dev Team that released the free software unlock, and iPhoneSIMfree, which released a commercial software unlock — to write applications that will undo the unlocks, as it were, if those users want to run the latest iPhone software.'"

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Quiiiick. by apodyopsis · 2007-09-25 00:11 · Score: 1, Flamebait

My. Thats a brave move. First they chopped $200 off, and then threaten to turn them into paperweights if you dare to use them away from their selected few. They *really* know how to treat their early adopters well.

Quick buy shares in O2 and AT&T! Quiiick!