With the news of Apple’s launch iPhone, the number of iPhone hacks has increased exponentially and a great deal of energy has been put into working through the iPhone’s software to find where the passwords and “glue” are for a series Of applications. The “Holy Grail” at the moment is iPhone unlocking.
Unlocking the iPhone is indeed the most requested hack, and unlocking means the iPhone can be used on any network and not just AT&T. There have been a couple of claims to have achieved this ultimate iPhone hack but so far they are just rumors although it seems like a couple of them are getting close and have managed to get ownership of the file system. Checking the iPhone software and especially the gif images that are embedded seems to be the main concern of any self-respecting iPhone hacking dealer around the world.
A GigaOM writer claims that they have managed to get all the iPhone features working except for the phone, voicemail, and text features. To be honest I don’t see the point of all this, getting an iPhone hack to unlock the beast isn’t going to be of much use unless you’re using the iPhone abroad and also won’t have 3G support.
Where I do see a value in opening up the iPhone software is that once we have the iPhone unlocked, we can use the device as a mini laptop that works over a Wi-Fi network, so we have something that’s going to be useful.
In the iPhone news vine, it’s not just iPhone tricks that are spreading fast and plentiful, there are also a number of full-fledged web apps that I must say are pretty impressive, well done guys! Probably the best one right now is the “iChat for iPhone” iPhone hack which gives you instant messaging capability in AIM. More than that, iPhone software source is available for this hack and you can host it on your own machine. If you really want to stay up to date with the latest iPhone unlocking and iPhone hacks, check out the iPhone Dev Wiki which seems to me the closest thing to getting an iPhone unlocking hack.
iPhone software that you can download on your new iPhone can be found at iPhone Apps on the web. Here you will find all the software and applications for iPhone, like iWeather, and more games than you can imagine. Unfortunately, until we have an iPhone hack that opens up the iPhone to third-party apps, we’ll have to make do with the Apple iPhone software we can play with right now.
How long before we have an iPhone hack that helps us unlock the iPhone completely is like asking how long a piece of string is, but with the energy being put into it, I guess it could be any time.