A New York teenager has figured how to separate the iPhone from AT&T's cellular network, but he says it isn't a simple task. Seventeen-year-old George Hotz says getting the gadget to work with T mobile, the only other US carrier compatible with the iPhone, requires skills with software and soldering. Once that work is done, the iPhone can be connected to the T-mobile network with a SIM card from a T-mobile account. Figuring out how to do all that took Hotz and a group of online collaborators about 500 hours, or eight days from the iPhone's June 29th launch. Now, knowing what to do, it takes Hotz about two hours to perform the task, anddetails have been made public. But Hotz warns that any missteps in the process could render the expensive phone useless. And he also says he doesn't want people to buy the phones simply to unlock them and send them overseas for a profit. Hotz had put the unlocked iPhone up for sale on eBay, but ended up trading it for a car and 3 iPhones. The unlocked iPhone went to the founder of the company Certicel
Hotz' blog: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/
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