After approximately two and half months of hard work, the iPhone Dev Team have achieved their objective of unlocking the iPhone, they have just announced the free GUI based iPhone SIM unlock tool called "anySIM" for complete freedom from AT&T.The tool converts the lengthy and complicated hacking process that was released earlier in the week into a simple one-touch speedy unlocking process.
Update: iPhone Dev Team have released anySIM 1.0.2, more details available after the jump.
It has taken the iPhone Dev Team only 79 days to achieve their objective of unlocking the iPhone. This is what they had set out to achieve in their own words
"Unlocking the iPhone will allow any Sim card to be used in the iPhone which will cause an increase in sales and is a major goal for the team."Though they had already achieved partial victory earlier this week when they had released iUnlock, the source code for iPhone SIM unlocking tool it still wasn't complete as it wasn't for the faint hearted.
The free GUI iPhone unlock tool no longer needs you to use command line or extract binary files; it is now a simple one-touch process once you have copied the PXL package to your iPhone. They have also cut the time down to max. 3-5 minutes from the 20 minutes it used to take earlier with the tool.
The installation process should get easier once the tool is added the very cool Installer.app iPhone application. Until then you could either use iBrickr (for Windows) or Breezy or iFuntastic v3 (for Mac) to load the PXL package to your iPhone.
As soon as they released the unlocking tool, there were some reports of people facing problems unlocking their iPhone due to some timing issue, however the good folks @ iPhone Dev team have already fixed the problem in version 1.0.1 of the tool.
There are still couple of known issues with the hack; the visual voicemail feature does not work as you need AT&T for it to work and people have reported problems using YouTube on their unlocked iPhone. So stay tuned @ iPhoneHacks.com for a workaround for these two known issues.
The source code has not been released and is expected to be released in a few days to prevent it being used for commercial gains.
Congratulations iPhone Dev Team on achieving a great milestone, today is your day!
Here is the link, to download the latest and greatest opensource Unlock tool and follow this link for a step by step guide posted by "Sti" one of the iPhone dev team's testers. But as always remember you will be using the unlock at your own risk[ as here is the disclaimer "The iPhone Dev Wiki is not responsible if you void your warranty or damage your device."
Don't forget to tip them for their effort towards achieving SIM freedom. Follow this link for more details on how to donate to the iPhone Dev Team.
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