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iPhone: Attack of the Clones
Now that Apple and AT&T have released the legal hounds on the iPhone hackers, we thought that people might back off a bit on announcing unlocking services. We were wrong.
First, there's this group from Lithuania, which offers to unlock your iPhone for a few hundred Euros. Of course, you have to mail it to India...
If you'd rather get ripped off AND keep your iPhone, these enterprising folks in Canada are selling unlocked iPhones for the low low price of $2899 US dollars. Though they caution that you can never update or restore the phone, and they're not responsible if the phone locks itself, and neither they nor apple will support the phone (though that doesn't stop them from selling a 2-year warranty for $140). Oh, and all sales are final, so if you're not happy with your $3,000 non-fixable non-updateable iPhone, tough nuggies.
Of course, if you just want to make people ten or more feet away think you have an iPhone, there's always eBay...
A simple search for "unlocked iPhone" on eBay brings up some nifty little knockoffs that would make a flea-market vendor blush.
Behold, the CECT IPhone P168 from China:
The interface is actually a fairly passable copy. Perhaps these guys could get jobs in Redmond...
They even got the back....
But it gets better. You see, some enterprising firm from Hong Kong has gone so far as to make a knock-off of the knock-off. Ladies and gents, I present the Glomarket GTJ T718:
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