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Quarter Of A Million iPhones Unlocked By Tinkerers

According to Apple's quarterly results, fully 17% of all iPhones sold are unlocked and roaming on networks other than AT&T's.

According to Apple's quarterly results, fully 17% of all iPhones sold are unlocked and roaming on networks other than AT&T's.Apple's recently reported third-quarter results were full of interesting figures. Perhaps the most interesting is that of the 1.4 million iPhones sold, 250,000 (or 17%) of them have been unlocked. They believe this because they've subtracted the number of iPhones activated on AT&T's network from the total number of iPhones sold.

Um. That figure is pretty danged high.


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Not only that, the iPhone Dev Team is reporting that there have been 500,000 downloads of its AnySIM 1.0 unlocker program. That means more than one-third of everyone who bought an iPhone has decided that they might hack it.

Wow.

How many of you iPhone owners out there have hacked yours?


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