According to a recent report on M.I.C Gadget, China Unicom, the official carrier partner for the iPhone and iPad in China, could be offering official jailbreak service to their customers.
The website has published pictures of promotional posters on display at a China Unicom store in Dongguan that reads:
“Support Service: Free SIM-trimming, jailbreak, installation of more than 10 hot apps.”
Though some will argue that pictures don't lie, the offer looks unrealistic for more than one reason.
Firstly, it seems unbelievable that an official iPhone carrier will offer a service like jailbreaking, which Apple has always maintained is an unauthorized modification and may void your iPhone's warranty.
Secondly, the latest version of iOS, iOS 4.0.2 has plugged the security hole that was exploited by Jailbreakme.com and hence cannot be jailbroken. In fact, the iPhone Dev team had recently announced that they shall not be releasing a jailbreak for iOS 4.0.2 and iOS 3.2.2.
Also, as an official carrier, China Unicom is likely to offer microSIM cards with the purchase of iPhone 4 and iPad and hence a SIM-trimming service appears doubtful at the moment.
Interestingly, the promotional poster also talks about offering customers free cases along with the purchase of iPhones and iPads. This would make it unnecessary for these customers to sign up for Apple's free case program. The note however does not mention how these cases shall be different from those offered through Apple's program.
What do you make of these reports? Do you think they are true? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
[via M.I.C Gadget]
Just because the devteam isn't gonna jailbreak it doesnt mean it can't be done haha. Pretty sure this Chinese company has alot more time, money, and manpower to get that task completed in no time, stop being so closed minded iPhone hacks.
They are a bunch of hacks.. no pun intended.
2 Things you got wrong:
First 1:
Its NOT about they wont or cant release it! It's because there's NO point if 4.1 is just round the corner!!!
Secondly:
Iphonehacks has never release any jailbreak, it's Idev Team!!!
Show some respect asshole!
yeah a lot of asian countries have placed that will hack your stuff. I have friends in Thailand and they tell me there are store that will hack iPhones, psp's nintendo ds's and many more!
I'm sure the Chinese have and jailbreak
Two things you got wrong: if you would have read it I said the dev team not iphonehacks jailbreak. And secondly I never said it would make fence to make a 4.0.2 jailbreak. I just said that it is possible for ppl other than the dev team to do it. Your just as dumb as these blog writers!
Why did you say "stop being so closed minded iPhone hacks.) then?
Just go to Mexico and they will hack anything you want there are stores every where that will hack any phone or mod any video game console..most of the people that do this in Mexico are people that come from Spain.
Because every time iphonehacks talks about a jailbreak and they mention that the Dev Team wasn't going to make a jailbreak for that particular firmware the ppl at iphonehacks immediately makes it sound like its impossible unless the dev team says it is. Thats why they are close minded. Any other questions?
Yeah I'm sure.. Chinese must have JB for 4.1 too… They dont release to public, if u buy phone from Unicom they will JB in the backyard and give it to u ready.
Yes there is a hack, I have a 3g hackt on 4.0.2, so it's possible
I believe that. I'm from Portugal (next to Spain for those who don't know) and here there are lots of stores where you can get that done
BOW! yea back in Bangladesh there's stores all over the place… I just came back from there a week ago and that's where i got my iPhone 4 hacked =) and funny thing is… I only had to pay 76 cents in US currency to have it done haha damn I love 3rd world countries.
BOW! yea back in Bangladesh there's stores all over the place… I just came back from there a week ago and that's where i got my iPhone 4 hacked =) and funny thing is… I only had to pay 76 cents in US currency to have it done haha damn I love 3rd world countries.
How or where did you get it done?
Just bunch of hacking tools. Why get worked up?
i jailbreak my iphone with no charge.. why need to pay? hahaha
That picture looks awfully familiar …
Yes that is a service that some of these stores provide but it is most likely not a Unicom owned Service Hall. There are only a small amount of service halls that Unicom actually own. The rest are just franchise company's as such. The company I am currently working for is applying for a license to do something similar in terms of reselling Unicom services etc.
Unicom has NOT officially launched the device. These are all water stock devices that have been smuggled in via other countries. So that add is most likely to be their own ad and nothing to do with Unicom. The devices are purchased from 3rd parties that run the stock through border control.
Unicom does provide material for customers to show them how to Jailbreak. It is not actively promoted but it is available. I have a copy of these materials and it is actually quite interesting. from start to beginning they have everything in there. Puts the internet to shame because these books with hundreds of pages give the user full access to everything. They have iPhone Sales staff in-store that do provide work-arounds for iTunes so they can install Apps for free. Unicom have unlimited access accounts which they use to provide customers with free paid apps. Colleagues have told me that is the norm when they are with the Unicom staff. No one pays for anything in China
Apart from the phone of course..
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