The best thing about the iPhone in my opinion is that its a phone with a music player and whats great is that the music player is the best iPod Apple has ever made. So I am not sure how many of you out there are going to be excited to hear that DVD Jon has hacked the iPhone activation such that you can activate the iPhone without AT&T.
More details available after the jump.
DVD Jon claims that "I’ve found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to NSA. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work."
So does this make him the first iPhone hacker or should that title go to folks at PdaParts.com for their YouTube video which gives step by step on how to disassemble the iPhone.
The point that Jon makes is that the iPhone can still be used for WiFI, web, email, video, music, calendar, contact management and other features except the iPhone part. I guess it is limited to all those who can't wait for the full screen iPod and do not want to enter into a 2-year contract with AT&T.
Link to post, which includes download for "Phone Activation Server v1.0". I am not sure if anyone has tried this yet, if you have please do share it with other readers.
The concern here is that nothing has been mentioned about how to revert back the changes or should I say iPhone hack and activate the iPhone with AT&T in case someone realizes that he wanted the phone part as well to make the best iPod Apple has ever made into his "God machine".
this still could be pretty useful with skype. I wonder if the mic & speaker could work with it. Has anyone tossed skype into the mix?
Does this mean if you go into airplane mode you can still use wi-fi?
hi i just tried to update my iphone from 1.1 version bought in hongkong now i cant even activate it..it just gets stuck with the terms and condition page in itunes..??what to do??/