The cards certain personal and normally secure information, including your phone number, billing information, contacts and text messages. Dude, you can unlock your own iPhone soon, ok? You can't have ours.Did the US and UK hack into SIM cards used on mobile phones?ĭid the US and UK hack their way into SIM cards used in mobile phones? That's the question one SIM card maker is trying to investigate.ĭutch company Gemalto manufactures SIM cards for mobile phones, which it sells to around 450 carriers throughout the world, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint.Just so you could be extra sure it's real, we even left in the GSM radio noise.No frames of the video stream were removed, it wasn't a cut. That's actually just a crop to make sure the phone number on the second iPhone isn't shown. The video stream does get cropped toward the end.We show the T-Mobile SIM at the beginning and end.You can't have our unlocked iPhone.īefore you get in a tizzy claiming it's a faked video, please note that: The only thing to notice was the phone number is now listed as "n/a" in iTunes. Restoring from an iPhone backup in iTunes worked perfectly despite the lock and foreign SIM.After fake-activating our iPhone, you merely pop out the AT&T SIM, put in the foreign SIM of your choosing, reactivate, and you're done.
We have no way of knowing whether Apple will be able to disable this SIM unlock with future iPhone software updates, but we can confirm that it is restore-resistant.
If you're not on AT&T you have to manually activate YouTube - here's the guide on how to do that. YouTube doesn't work out of the box, but that's to be expected. Everything is confirmed as working on a non-AT&T network: SMS send / receive, internet (including Safari, Mail, Google maps, etc.).When you hit the voicemail button you are taken immediately to your carrier's default voicemail line though, and that works just like it would on any other phone. That was, of course, to be expected because it's a special AT&T network-specific feature right now. Visual voicemail isn't in the cards - sorry.
(Apparently these hidden menus were added in the 1.0.1 update, they tell us. We put in our T-Mobile info, and were immediately online.
The team called us up to prove their claim that they cracked Apple's iPhone SIM lock system, and prove it they did. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's high noon, Apple and AT&T - we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up.