My Freezing Goodness

And you thought you were a pro overclocker?! Think again, a team from AMD pushed the new Phenom II Quad core processor to a blistering 6.5Ghz! The best part, they managed to benchmark it. Check out the video after the break.

[Via Engadget]

My Dilemma: Software vs. Hardware

Ok so this whole iPhone sim unlock thingy is really getting serious now that Apple is actively preventing people from unlocking their iPhones. The current iPhones ship with Firmware 1.1.2 and also come with a new bootloader which makes software unlocking almost impossible right now. The best solution so far is using hardware such as Stealth Sim but I would have to modify my sim card (as in cut out a portion of it). The downside is, that it is costly. Something like $100+ USD!! Ok, so the situation is like this...

Software Unlock

Pros:

• Free
  
• Relatively easy to do

Cons:

• Can't unlock FW1.1.2 Out of the box
• Not upgrade friendly (as in I have to wait for a new unlock everytime a new firmware is released)
• There are paid solutions which cost about the same as the hardware ones but you have to give your IMEI number to a third party

Hardware Unlock

Pros:

• Quite easy to do also
• Most of it is plug and play
• Upgrade friendly

Cons:

• Expensive!
• Have to modify sim which might get me in trouble with my telco

Anyway, to get an idea of how easy it is to actually use something like Stealth Sim here's a short clip on it...

[Oh] My Gawd!!!! [Update x2]

iPhone unlocked. Free! Go. Here. Now!

There has been a major breakthrough in this field. The main guys who were working on a free solution has done it! They have finally unlocked the iPhone.

The steps seem quite complicated but there is a tutorial on how to do it here and here's a MacRumors forum thread where someone compiled all the early tutorials that are floating around. You need certain files which I will download and host on my own file server just in case it disappears.

Anyways, this is great news for me. The one caveat is that when Apple updates the firmware, it could break it. But hey, just knowing it's there is enough motivation for me.

[Update]

I found another tutorial. This one with nice pictures and a step by step guide. Go here its called modmyiphone

[Update x2]

Wow, these guys are fast! Well modmyiphone has created another step by step tutorial. This time detailing the whole process from activation to unlocking. It's here.