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Hackers Finally Unlock iPhone 3G

Posted by Soulskill on from the information-and-iphones-want-to-be-free dept.

nandemoari quotes a story at Infopackets: "2009 has gotten off to a great start for a team of iPhone enthusiasts with little regard for Apple's licensing requirements. They've finally figured out a way to get the phone to work with any cell phone carrier (and not just AT&T). The iPhone Dev Team is best known for their work on 'jailbreaking;' the technique of altering an iPhone so that you can run any applications on it, not just those approved by Apple. Given the company's questionable vetting policy for entry to the official App store, it's not surprising many users approve of jailbreaking."

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  1. Grumpy Featurism by mdwh2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I see moderation on Apple stories is back on form - if anyone else slagged off a product using terms such as "patheticly ugly, clunky" rather than using evidence, and then threw ad-hominems of "troll", they'd be modded down in an instant.

    The seamless integration between the Phone OS, the standard apps, the 3rd party apps, my mac, iphoto, itunes, ical, mobile me.

    I get so tired of the grumpy "featurism" of Slashdot posters. The Iphone might do everything and more than what my current phone does... on paper. In truth, that doesn't mean that these things work as well, I can't copy and paste when I'm editing, every time I installed a Java program it didn't work, and even though it had a 2 megapixel camera, it doesn't even have a flash, nor could I work out how to record a video with it.