Free the iPhone from AT&T

Acererak was one of several readers who noted that DVD Jon has released information on unbricking an iPhone. You sacrifice all cel phone functionality of course, but you have an iPDA that will work on your WiFi. Currently the hack is windows only but it doesn't look very complicated.

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[Simon (S2)]

hy would you pay that much money for a PDA, when you can get other devies whose only purpose it to be a PDA for less?

Because of the "I" prefix.

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[MyLongNickName]

Because it is an iPhone. If you have one, you are hip and cool. You are important and beautiful. If you don't, you are a loser. Basically it is like middle school but with more money.

Right

[suv4x4]

So "unbricking" the iPhone means losing cell phone ability. What kind of unbricking this is?

How about a guide how to free my PC from Internet security vulnerabilities. By blowing up my modem with a hand grenade.

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[niceone]

Well, because you get to have a cool iPhone.

This mod has a couple more advantages for the slashdot crowd:

1) you won't have to talk to people.
2) it makes it harder for 'them' to track you

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[Minwee]

Cool factor, User Interface, Wifi, Almost full featured browser, Full screen, Video player.

I think the phrase you are looking for is "prosthetic eNis".

Re:Right

[linuxci]

The latter is only a matter of time, after all you do not expect a device with a general purpose OS where everything runs as root to last long, do you?

What's Windows got to do with this? :)

Seriously, what makes you think everything runs as root on the iPhone?

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm interested in a hack that allows tunring my nano into a phone. Let me know when this happens...

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[Tony Hoyle]

iPeen

Re:Why is DVD Jon focused on Apple?

[suv4x4]

He earned his name long ago. He has no need to 'justify' himself to anyone, and he certainly doesn't owe us anything. He can do whatever he damned well pleases, and you should be thankful for anything that happens to help you, instead of disrespecting him for the stuff that doesn't.

Showing your gratitude means you're weak. You gotta hate things. Hate Windows, hate Oracle, hate IBM, hate Intel, hate RIAA, hate Exxon. Hate the government, hate DVD Jon. Hate some guy who made a million by selling pixels on his home page and so on.

It's a survival technique. Now, of course, I kinda like Linux. I contributed a brightness adjustment to the "paste" icon in the KDE file manager, so by extension this puts me in the same group with the guys who created the Linux kernel.

But I'm not gonna tell you I like Linux. I'll just instead tell you you're an idiot for not using Linux, otherwise it means I'm weak.

iPhone shuffle

[Elsapotk421]

I'll take one!

Re:Your sig

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, he does have an interest in Apple products...

Re:Why is DVD Jon focused on Apple?

[suv4x4]

In order to justify his name he should do Blue Ray and HD DVD stuff.

Totally agreed. And he better do it quick, I'm on the phone talking with the head of the Name Giving Commission, and they're seriously considering taking his name back.

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[Bemopolis]

YEAH! Someone should find a way of making the iPhone work without having to sign a 2-year contract with AT&T. Even if they have to sacrifice the cellphone functionality. I sure hope that when someone does that it becomes a story on SLashdot. Of course then, I'd probably have to respond to someone too dense to Read The Fucking Title.

Re:Why is DVD Jon focused on Apple?

[drifterusa]

Yes, taking from the evil technology innovators and giving to the impoverished geeks who can't survive without the latest gizmo delivered on their terms. Robin Hood my ass!

Re:Why "Of course"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I hope US follow the EU here, but then, I also hope to get a girlfriend. Not gonna happen.

Re:Unlock??

[Zebedeu]

You're right!
The iPhone is totally useless without this "Visual Voicemail" feature!

Re:Yeah make it worthless, then I can afford one!!

[Zaatxe]

"The difference between a man and a boy is the price of their toys."
-- My mom

I have one

[BlackCobra43]

It involves an elastic band, a free cell phone from the carrier of your choice (look around. They all have at least one model that's free) and your nano..

Re:Why "Of course"?

[blincoln]

People want things that work 100% and aren't going to like it much when the spend lots of money and can only be told that 98% of what they bought will work. And absolutely nothing can be done about it.

The cell carriers and phone manufacturers could... I don't know... agree on a standard network and phone API.

Obvious followup

[UltraAyla]

Will it get me the iPoon?