iPhone 3G Hardware Unlocked by TA_Mobile

By Aaron Besson at 1 December, 2008, 9:36 am

Tuan Anh aka TA_Mobile, Vietnamese cell shop owner and iPhone hacker, has maanged to unlock the iPhone 3G via a crazy hardware hack that involved removing the motherboard from the iPhone 3G, removing the BaseBand Chip (SGOLD) and re-flashing it and then re-fitting it to the motherboard.
TA_Mobile if you remember was the first to extract [...]

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TA_Mobile extracts bootloader 5.8 from iPhone 3G - Unlock Soon?

By Aaron Besson at 22 July, 2008, 11:21 am

TA_Mobile is a Vietnamese iPhone hacker and has been hard at work taking apart his new 16Gb white iPhone 3G and has managed extract bootloader 5.8 from the hardware. Although this itself is not a unlock, it does give dev’s like ta_mobile, the Dev Team, GeoHot and others one step closer to unlocking the iPhone 3G baseband.
The bootloader [...]

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