p2pnet news | Mobiles:- Want to buy George Hotz’s Apple iPhone?

At 10:00 am Pacific, you’d have needed more than $2,175.

Why so much?

Because its creator, Hotz, 17, says it’s the world’s second unlocked iPhone, outside of Apple vaults.

Where’s the first?

“I use the first as my personal cell phone,” he says on his eBay auction site.

“Unlocked iPhone #1, “remains safely in my pocket at all times,” he states.

But #2 was, “the most hyped unlock for arguably the most hyped product in history. This is the iPhone from the blog, that was unlocked live for the world @ http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com.”

If you’re willing and able to fork out a minimum of two grand for Hotz’s phone, here’s what you’ll get:

This phone is ready to work with any SIM card. I patched out activation, so you can just pop in the sim and go. This is the only iPhone on ebay right now that can claim that. The wires for the testpoint are taped to the battery inside the phone. They are easy to access after you open the phone. The modem already has the 3.14 firmware.

Be aware that an update will reset this phone to being locked, but I left all the files required for unlocking on the phone. You will always be able to reunlock this phone. The soldering on the testpoint is very well done and epoxied in place.

I’m not just including the iPhone in the auction. You’ll get

The 4GB iPhone, signed by geohot, with no damage at all

The world first serial dock, the one the serial interface was discovered on

And the official unlock switch from the blog.

But even if you have the money, you might want to wait a while because as Hotz himself points out:

Soon, you will be able to buy unlocked iPhones everywhere, in fact probably before this auction ends. But this is the one that started it all. The one unlocked while the steps were posted live on the blog. This isn’t just an unlocked iPhone, this is a piece of history.

Finally, what did it take to get the unlocked iPhone from A to Z?

Lotsa caffeine, as per the pic below

.Slashdot it!

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