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Originally Posted by FanIn80
You're talking about a hardware unlock. I'm specifically talking about software unlocks.
You may trust your friend, but I wouldn't trust a hardware hack anywhere near my iPhone.
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I'm going to agree with FanIn80 here, hardware hacks are much more risky then software hacks (with software, if you screw up you can boot it up in recovery mode and just retry, with hardware you can get a brick pretty easily). Another down side is if the hardware hack gets blocked by firmware updates, your SOL, where as for hardware, the new firmware just needs to be rehacked (as we've seen with the 1.0->1.1.1->1.1.2->1.1.3->1.1.4->2.0->2.1 firmware hacks so far (i think i'm missing a few there as well).
From what I remember, the hardware hack requires you to cut apart your current sim card and place it on this cradle thing that your friend is probably ordering.
I think this is a demonstration on it working, but I can't watch youtube at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1lQWH24hv4