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Bunch at iPhone Dev Wiki a step closer to fully unlock Jobs' latest gadget. They did it using iASign app and from now on you can us any Cingular, MVNA or AT&T prepaid sim in iPhone. No two-year contract obligation.

This is their latest progress report:

We wanted to get some confirmations before announcing it, but it seems nearly impossible to find people to try what we wanted to try.

So, as many people already noticed, using iASign, you'll be able to activate existing AT&T and Cingular Sims without signing a new contract. We think it should work with virtual AT&T operators as well (i.e. the ones using the same network code), but we couldn't find someone to actually confirm it yet. You can get a list of those virtual operators at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/usa.html. Please note that TracFone and Net10 won't work due to some technical details. If anyone could try it out on one of those prepaid cards, that would be great.

By the way, for those of you looking for this "DeviceID", on a Mac (so on _your computer_) it's the name of the .plist file in ~/Library/lockdown. We'll probably release a more automated tool later, once we find some time for those tasks.

As a side note, we'd like to clarify that we are not even close on giving up the full unlocking, as reported on some websites. We're still up and running, but we won't comment on a possible time line. If the unlocking is possible we'll eventually find it, so stay tuned.

If you think you can help tune in #iPhone IRC channel.

D. H.