// July 12th, 2007 // 21 Comments » // Hacks, tech
Many of us saw the lines outside the apple stores all over the US on youtube, flickr, and so many other sites. We have been reading about it for months! But since many of us are not in the US, we can’t be part of this whole iPhone madness.
well, that’s not 100% true, Why?
well, you can open an account with aramex’s shop and ship, and then order an iPhone and have it delivered to your US mailbox. In less then a week your iPhone will be in your hands in sha allah.
The question is will the iPhone work in Saudi Arabia if you buy it? Well, according to the iPhone’s technical specs the iPhone works on Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) GSM networks. In Saudi Arabia, STC and Mobily both offer 900 MHz GSM networks. So, Technically it’s supposed to work, but there is a problem. The iPhone is locked to AT&T and Cingular in the United States.
Hackers have been working hard to unlock this phone. A few hours ago they announced that they have released a program called iPhoneInterface, with the new app, you will have the ability to scan the device’s file structure, create and remove folders
Does this mean it’s fully unlocked? Well, they manged to make the phone work with all it’s features except for the phone, but they have completed only 50 % of the task. The problem is that the hackers need Apple’s 128-bit RSA private key to sign anything they want to get into the iPhone’s bootloader.
In other words the phone will not work in Saudi Arabia or any other country other than the United States until hackers manage to unlock the iPhone!
You can preorder your unlocked iPhone from expansys, and they will deliver the phone as soon as it’s fully unlocked. But, the phone will be really expensive compared to it’s original price!!
