How To Hack An iPhone

In its first few months on the market, Apple sold 4 million iPhones, but 1.7 million of those iPhones weren't activated on AT&T's network. Where are they?

All over the world, apparently, being unlocked and sold to work with GSM networks from Germany to Australia to China to Saudi Arabia, according to reseller Wireless Imports.

With a small orange device available for $179, Wireless Imports demonstrates in the following slides how easy it is to make an iPhone work on any GSM network -- even T-Mobile's here in the U.S. (although if users upgrade their phones with Apple's 1.1.3 software update, it won't work).

First of all, users have to use Jailbreak to unlock their iPhones, which should take about five minutes, according to Wireless Imports.

Next, users need one of these orange devices -- almost paper thin with a chip in the corner that fools an iPhone into thinking it's working off an AT&T SIM card.

The SIM card needs to look like the one on the right.

Which requires cutting the corner off with scissors ...

... So that it looks like this.

Users then place the cut SIM card in the iPhone's SIM card tray.

Then users place the orange device over the SIM card so that the chip on the card sits where you cut.

USers then return SIM card and tray to iPhone and la voila!

Within minutes a demo iPhone registered that it was on the T-Mobile network when a pay-as-you-go T-Mobile SIM card was used.