I guess it was just a matter of timing, but a locked iPhone proved no match for a 17-year old teenager from New Jersey. George Hotz has successfully managed to unlock the iPhone, allowing it to be used on other operators in the US instead of AT&T (such as T-Mobile, one of AT&T’s biggest rivals). According to George, unlocking the iPhone is not meant for newbies as it requires approximately two hours as well as certain soldering skills and programming knowledge. Both Apple and AT&T have not yet released any comment regarding George’s ‘exploits’, but chances are they won’t take this piece of news lying down.
Word on the street has it that Google is merely a couple of weeks away from releasing their Google Phone worldwide after kicking off talks with service providers in India for an exclusive launch on one of their networks. Apparently, these talks rotated between Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, where the largest and third largest mobile telephony operators could potentially carry the GPhone. It is also said that a simultaneous launch in the US and Europe would be a very real possibility, with only US regulatory approval being the only obstacle that Google has left to overcome.
