Just checking in again. Still feel a bit silly, I kind of want to crawl under a rock and hide. I just cant believe they came out with this on the eve of my iPhone rant. If it was a week a later I would not be even be writing any of this, but they just had to rub it in my eyes. At least I own up to it, not like some others that should remain nameless.

On that note lets push forward, this is a great milestone for the iPhone and all of the people that want to obtain that mythical creature they call the “JesusPhone”. Now we are still in this things infancy, so we are still not sure that this software from iPhoneSimFree.com will revert with a simple update from Apple, but the site guarantees it will stay put with whatever sim card of your choosing.

So really what is their to talk about other then when can we all get this software. Obviously iPhoneSimFree.com is trying to make a buck, but nipping on their heels is another group of developers working on making this free. Now I would not mind paying a little dough for this software from iPhoneSimFree.com just on principal alone knowing that they have been working on this since the release date of the iPhone.

So get ready for a flood of duplicate posts from other sites going on and on about this topic. Which in its right is a great piece of industry news. but we will try to keep it fresh with new stories and new findings here at The Geekery.

Well maybe not. I know everyone is sick of hearing about the Jesus phone, I know I most certainly am. But I wanted to touch on a topic that is driving me insane. I see new articles about it everyday. Its driving me crazy. Now all of you are saying, “What is driving you crazy?”, all the articles about people finally UNLOCKING THE iPhone! I have read hundreds of claims that people have unlocked the iPhone. But the thing is that is all we ever hear are claims. I know some people have actually done it, but to what extent are you prepared to go to unlock that ironclad device. In the end you might find yourself spending more on unlocking it then actually ponying up the cash for AT&T.

I understand the people that don’t want to give into the system, and that’s neat and all. But really why waste your time, energy, and hard earned money on simply unlocking a phone that might or might not work with your carrier. Plus what happens when your phone dies, or has a malfunction. Do you take it back to Apple? I don’t think that will really work. Granted most of the people that are trying to unlock these things are pretty savy with the gadgets, so I assume they would probably be able to fix most issues on their own, and that’s the rub, not everyone is savy with the gadgets. Its a glass half full type of situation.

Now some people are claiming they unlocked the phone monkeying around with the internal hardware, and some claim the TurboSim card unlocks the phone via blocking it from getting any AT&T info, and a recent one I heard today about people doing it via a firmware hack. Once again I reiterate that this is not a bad thing. This is how people discover things about technology and how innovations are created in the marketplace, simply by taking a device apart and seeing how it works. That’s how technology evolves, which is a great thing. But as these shenanigans keep on progressing I really do not see one true process to unlock these devious devices. So I say this once and once only, that the Apple iPhone is the most secure smart-phone to date. If the Apple iPhone was a building it would be Fort Knox, but I think it would be even more secure then Fort Knox. You see Fort Knox is not open to the public, which the iPhone is, and if Fort Knox was open to the public for 2 months people would have already found a way into the safes. But their are many claims of partially unlocked iPhones as well (Thats like partially stealing the gold then getting shot on the way out by the tower guards).

When I say secure, I don’t mean secure software, or secure from software exploits, I mean it is locked down to the mother-ship and the tractor beam is strong. Their are thousands of some of the best PDA/Smart-phone crackers in the world working on this, and no one has came out with a true unlock method for the masses. The funny thing is that whenever if ever their is one Golden Key to unlock the palace, Apple and AT&T will sit and watch as people start unlocking the phones. Now this is the painful part, they will watch, but they wont be upset. They will be sitting over a tech’s pc telling him to deploy the new firmware that will brick every single one. ONE KEYSTROKE. Then the process begins all over again.

My point to all of this is that the masses will not go along. Once they have touched that glassy interface they will not be able to go back to any other smart-phone. So they will eventually cough up the cash for the AT&T service, and it will come with another rush of profits for the two companies.

Like I wrote about last week, these companies thrive off control. They want to control the influx of information, they want to control your hardware and software. Frustrating at best, but what can we do? Except not buy there hardware and software. This is why I have taken a stand. I would love to have that gorgeous phone, but it does not work with my carrier. So I am waiting for the revised version of the HTC Touch.  To me its as close to an iPhone as any other device.

I guess I have not been struck with the Jesus phone syndrome yet?

Here are some examples of the claims I have been talking about:

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I think ten example are enough, I could link to different stories all day.

I am not one to trump up stories and create chaos in the blogosphere, but supposedly the fellows over at Bladox have unlocked the iPhone from its master. They are using the Turbo Sim card toolkit that Bladox produces. They are saying over on the user forums on Bladox’s site that the phone is 100% unlocked. But it seems like only 3-4 people have successfully unlocked it.

Now don’t get me wrong, this is great and all but what happens when AT&T or Apple get word of this, which most likely has already happened. Can you smell a possible update to 1.0.2? Which in my eyes will most likely happen, and to the people that think AT&T wants the iPhone unlocked, “You are dead wrong”. Why would they want it unlocked, yeah they are making a ton of money off the hardware, but mostly everyone knows cell companies make the money off the actual plan. I guess no one has told them that the iPhone has one the highest bill ratings out of most of the smart phone plans on the market. So the answer is “no” AT&T does not want this, and Apple certainly does not want this either. They like locking people into services, ever heard of ITunes.

Both of the companies like control, more in the direction of love control. AT&T likes censoring bands and Apple likes censoring anyone they can. But large companies thrive off control.

So for all of you that want to get out and buy an iPhone ($599) plus a TurboSim Card ($80) I dare you to do it, actually I double dare you to do it. I bet you in no less then 3 months that thing will be bricked and you will be SOL.

Now I would love this not to happen to you, but like I said these are companies that love control and love to control you.

Oh by the way the 2 of the so called 4 people that have got it unlocked are from Australia (Vodaphone)