Comments on: If you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket.. http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/07/if_youve_got_money_burning_a_hole_in_your_pocket.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:33:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Lane http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/07/if_youve_got_money_burning_a_hole_in_your_pocket.html/comment-page-1#comment-67528 Dan Lane Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:30:07 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/07/if_youve_got_money_burning_a_hole_in_your_pocket.html#comment-67528 That article is wrong, the phone activation server software they are talking about ONLY UNLOCKS THE IPOD functionality and does nothing to remove the SIM lock. As per most smartphones these days they can (architecturally speaking) be thought of as two distinct devices. The PDA and the Radio (ie: phone).. cracking the PDA OS to unlock the iPod functionality is one thing, cracking the radio firmware to remove the SIM lock is a very different task. Having said that, the first step to cracking the radio firmware is cracking the OS gets you a big step closer to being able to access the radio. That article is wrong, the phone activation server software they are talking about ONLY UNLOCKS THE IPOD functionality and does nothing to remove the SIM lock.

As per most smartphones these days they can (architecturally speaking) be thought of as two distinct devices. The PDA and the Radio (ie: phone).. cracking the PDA OS to unlock the iPod functionality is one thing, cracking the radio firmware to remove the SIM lock is a very different task. Having said that, the first step to cracking the radio firmware is cracking the OS gets you a big step closer to being able to access the radio.

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