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• On this Point by shinji257
  "The iPhone community has found no way to unlock the 3G iPhone yet however the original generation have been like that for a very long time."
  
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  Unlocking is not yet possible on the current generation of iPhones which is also a hardware restriction.
  
  Yes, the iPhone community have not found unlock. However you are wrong, a locked 3G iPhone can be, legally, unlocked by Apple at the behest of a carrier.
  
  Here in Australia, the iPhone comes locked to a carrier, after you have signed a contract (ie bought the phone), or purchased a prepaid phone outright, you can request for it to be unlocked. Either way they start out locked to a carrier, but can be unlocked.
  Some carrier charge a fee, some don't. It does take several days, as it is done through Apple & iTunes, but it can be done.
  
  There is no reason this won't be the case for the iPhone and iPhone 3G in the United States and elsewhere, albeit it may not be till people's original contracts expire. I do not recall anywhere, other then idle speculation, where Apple or AT&T and others have said otherwise. (please show me the light if I'm wrong on that, but it would surprise me)
  
  None the less it is possible to unlock a iPhone 3G, so it is obviously not purely a hardware restriction, or even an Apple one but an AT&T/carrier restriction.
  
  On the point of Jailbreaking, its your choice to do so. I personally haven't found a need to, then again I got Netshare before it was banned.(which I think was more the carriers fault again then Apples, but I am a Fanboy after all) In reply to: "Apple's new iTunes surprise: No more jailbreaking"

  November 6, 2008

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