Today 11/3/09 is a sn0w day. School is officially cancelled, and all your iPhones will be unlocked. Remember getting those calls?
At Noon EST, 5 PM GMT, I will be making it sn0w, and I’m looking to see "#blacksn0w" trending. blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app. Here is how getting yourself some sn0w and ra1n will work.
That’s an excerpt from GeoHot’s latest blog post on his much-anticipated new unlock, blacksn0w. It should be out at midday today, a day earlier than originally announced.
Apparently you’ll be able to run the unlock directly from within the blackra1n app on a jailbroken iPhone. Check out all the details at GeoHot’s blog post HERE.
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Great news. A buddy of mine has been waiting on this. Looks like ill be unlocking his phone for him tonight!
I've never done an unlock – good luck mate, hope it's as simple and smooth as it's cracked up to be
I have my iPhone 3GS jailbroken with Blackra1n but was wondering if there is any reason to unlock my phone if I plan on sticking with AT&T for at least another year and a half?
Not that I can think of. By the time 1.5 years go by, jailbreak and unlock possibilities and apps will likely be all changed.
What about tethering? I hated that I after a few weeks of successful internet tethering, my visual voicemail was safu-ed. When 3.1.2 came out and I upgraded, so much for the possibility of tethering. If I read geohot's description correctly (and since I'm relatively new I fear I know enough to only be dangerous), tethering might be possible again? To me that would be a reason to unlock despite sticking with AT&T's less-than-stellar service for another 1.5 years (me too, btw).
The reason that you always want to run/keep an unlock?
If you ever choose to sell your iPhone (such as when you need the upgrade to the new iPhone and want the cash) just the fact that your iPhone is unlocked increases the phones value by approx. $200-$250. So for the brand new iPhone 3G[s] 32GB, if it's unlocked on the current OS 3.1.2, your phone is worth approx $700-$800 in places like eBay.
It's basically a way to keep the value of your iPhone increased. And that's if you don't actually use it on other GSM carriers. I'm staying on AT&T too, but I'm running the unlock anyway because I intend to sell next year.
Very true. Good point, if selling the phone is anywhere on the horizon.
$200-$250 more? whoa, will try that!
Put it like this – even if you never use the unlock, it's good to have the OPTION to brin it over to another GSM carrier if you wanted/needed to, right? That's exactly why I do it.
A lot of people give away their old iPhones once they upgrade. Some people just sell them and use the cash to buy the new iPhones. It's a viscious consumer cycle.
When the 3G[s] came out, I actually MADE money. I took my old 3G, and resold it on eBay as jailbroken an unlocked for $525. Now, here's how my mind works –
I'm not including the mothly AT&T charges. I paid $199 for the original $3G. With tax, it came to $223. SAME FOR THE 3G[s]. So TOTAL, for BOTH iPhones and tax, I will have paid $446.
Then I sold my original 3G for $525 as I stated above. That's the cash I used to upgrade to the 3G[s]. So technically, I actually MADE $79 for upgrading.
I gave my wife's old 3G away to my mother, who WAS on T-Mobile. So by me giving away an unlocked phone, she got to keep her #, get a better, premium phone for a cheap-ass plan on a monthly basis. All because I kept my options open.
Not bad, eh?
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