iPhone unlock and more….

An interesting one, that only applies to Orange Switzerland business customers…

As you may know, the Orange Switzerland offer for business customers is quite simple: you keep your current price plan and for an extra CHF 19.- / month, you get the iPhone package on top (1GB traffic + a couple of SMS).

The cool thing? They accepted to activate it for my 1st gen iPhone, without buying a 3G version!!

So I can now surf the web, sync my e-mails over the air (active sync), … all with my “old” iPhone, upgarded to 2.0 and unlocked!!

Might be interesting for you… if you are an Orange business customer.

Works well on Orange Switzerland

Here we go! The iPhone Dev Team has released his Pwnage tool v.2 that finally lets you update to iPhone OS 2!

But, be aware: the process is not as simple as ZiPhone… Be careful!

And, I have only tested it on my 1st gen iPhone. Haven’t received my 3G iPhone yet !

Basically, the principle of the Pwnage tool is quite easy:

1. You “PWN” your iPhone running system 1.1.4: this operation alters the phone’s bootloader and “breaks” the check of signed software. After this operation, the phone will let you install any unsigned ipsw file via iTunes.

2. You create a custom 2.0 system file that will activate, jailbreak (=make the system read/write) and unlock the baseband (allowing it to run on any GSM carrier).

3. You put your phone in recovery mode, and restore the custom IPSW file directly from iTunes

4. Once it’s done, the phone unlocks itself and here we go!

So far, everything worked fine on mine, including AppStore!

You can download all the stuff needed (for Mac…) here: Pwnage 2

A full tutorial (with screenshots) will follow soon!

Back to life!

The iPhone life was so boring waiting for the new iPhone 3G… All the speculations… the beta OS…. and so on!

So, now, back to life with some fresh and interesting news regarding iPhone in Switzerland!

News 1: … mmmhhh… no iPhones available anymore. Swisscom had 14′000 pieces and Orange 5′000 (Sunrise doesn’t distribute them). All gone at 11 am on Friday July 11. Nice shot!

News 2: If you order and iPhone and want it quickly, prefer the 8GB black or 16GB white one. Apparently the 16 GB black one is the most wanted… so you’ll wait longer!

News 3: FYI, I ordered my 16GB white iPhone today and Orange told me I could expect to receive it “beginning of August”…

News 4: Do not update your original iPhone to OS 2.0 yet!! Apparently the DevTeam or “yiPhone” will release an activation, jailbreak and unlocking tool… by tommorrow night (Tuesday evening, that is…). I’ll keep you posted.