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All thanks to a Person in Vietnam and you can have your iPhone 3G unlocked to be used with any Service Provider possible. In your Face Corporate World.

I am really sorry but cant give you the complete details how that can be done, not that I don’t want to share it with you all but because I don’t have the complete details.

The reason that I am writing this post is to salute the perseverance and determination of one chap from Hanoi, Vietnam.

Though what he does would be considered illegal by many, but I think its completely legal on the grounds of making the iPhone 3G usable for everyone and not just the few people.

I respect the iPhone 3G completely for its technological advancements and all the features that it provides  user. The only thing that I don’t appreciate is that it can be used with only a selected few Service Providers. Apple owes it to people who have propelled it to the top to make its future devices usable for everyone.

Enough of this now lets see how the iPhone 3G is unlocked.

The phone is unlocked at the hardware level which is quite hard to do, believe me at the end of this topic you will believe so too.

• First the Phone is opened and striped to its motherboard, this is the easier part to do.

• Then the something called as the Baseband chip (red X marks the  baseband chip in the picture below ) is extracted from the Motherboard. This Baseband chip controls the connection between the phone and mobile network. This is the hard part as the chip is glued strongly to the motherboard and one slip can make the phone unusable forever. The only use that you would have for it is a Fancy Paperweight.

• Then the Baseband chip is used with a chip reader to read the information into a file. Then a Hex reader is used to edit the file and remove the locking data from the file. Then the chip automatically gets programed as per the new file and wallah the iPhone is ready to use with any service provider.

• Then the phone is reassembled back again, which is another pains taking process.

Now finally I would like to thank the CNET editor Dong Ngo who reported this article first and also the main guy who made this possible a 29 year old business man from Hanoi, Tuan Anh.

This method also unlocks the iPhone with the latest 2.2 software update which was believed to be virtually impossible to unlock.

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