My dad recently bought an iPhone, and being the tech guy in the house, naturally asked me to try to unblock it so he could use it with a Mexican network.

When he bought it, the salesman told him it came with the new 1.1.1 firmware, and that it couldn’t be unblocked. I started looking for ways to unblock 1.1.1 and actually found one that supposedly worked. I did the first few steps but then I everything seemed to lock up. Upon further inspection, I found out that the iPhone actually had the 1.0.2 version of the firmware.

A quick Google search turned out this page: iphone.unlock.no

It is a quick tutorial to unblock version 1.0.2 of the iPhone, and I am happy to say that, after around 20 minutes, it worked flawlessly. There are people here in Chihuahua selling unblocked iPhones for around US$850. Considering the iPhone costs $399 and it takes 20 minutes to unblock it, they are making a nice profit!

I guess I will be buying one for myself soon!