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- username7410, on 11/29/2008, -1/+79"Each such unlocking job takes about an hour to complete and costs 1.2 million dong (about $80)"
Inflated dong.- Dujenwook, on 11/29/2008, -2/+13***** nice one.
- dabura, on 11/29/2008, -5/+1Thanks, Obvious Whore.
- jerryonly666, on 11/29/2008, -3/+58Dugg for the proper use of Dong.
- jlimon, on 11/29/2008, -1/+13Hehe.. dong.
- benologist, on 11/29/2008, -10/+5Thanks for telling us why you dugg the story. You should try selling the movie rights, I'm sure the rest of the world wants to hear about your amazing adventures too.
- HookmasterCH47, on 11/29/2008, -8/+3Imagine the stories a dong has to tell while in Vietnam.
- dabura, on 11/29/2008, -1/+5Đồng.
soccer ball = 2000 đồng
ice cream = 500 đồng
Dragonballz Anime = 3500 đồng
/back when i live there.
***** it now, the governement just issued a 5,000,000 đồng bill.- m4lomb, on 11/30/2008, -1/+2Thats a lot of dong!
- tonicboy, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1#1, there is no such thing as a 5mil dong bill.
#2, you clearly have not lived there in a long long time if those are your prices. Multiply by 20 and you're in the ballpark.
- Beautyon, on 11/29/2008, -7/+13The morning sun
shines over the prison wall,
And drives away the shadows
and miasma of hopelessness.
Dev Team code
blows across the earth.
A hundred imprisoned iPhones
smile once more. - genti888, on 11/29/2008, -7/+0Hi must be a coder too, to do that kind of hack
- Kerr, on 11/29/2008, -1/+7Well Hi to you to.
- tarv2, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1too*
- jlimon, on 11/29/2008, -0/+1too
- Kerr, on 11/29/2008, -1/+7Well Hi to you to.
- HerrWolf, on 11/29/2008, -7/+2< insert childish joke about "dong" here >
- Tobey, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3No.
- Equinox1, on 11/29/2008, -7/+2Dugg for "Dong's stories from abroad".
- axelgrease, on 11/29/2008, -5/+5That's impressive
- TheAlkhemist, on 11/29/2008, -7/+7Apple won't ship iPods here but it seems like everyone with money has them.
- Kossu, on 11/29/2008, -14/+4Nobody gives a *****
- Snooker1985, on 11/29/2008, -7/+2first I was going to say something completely negative....but I am impressed with their skills.
- mindpuzzle, on 11/29/2008, -7/+3Interesting
- lazeedigger, on 11/29/2008, -4/+5This article brings back me so many bittersweet memories.... Dugg for the great read.
- RainStreet, on 11/29/2008, -6/+3Pretty cool article. Dugg.
- samkityoung, on 11/29/2008, -1/+28Caution: Terrible comments above.
- JamesMatt, on 11/29/2008, -5/+5 excellent next time im in Vietnam i will check this out ... WHAT THE *****?
- nickbr00tality, on 11/29/2008, -3/+13These comments suck.
Dugg cause I'm Vietnamese, and thought this was cool...- cheapotheclown, on 11/29/2008, -4/+1yes, very cool that you're vietnamese
- Fixion, on 11/29/2008, -0/+32Clarification:
The chips are not "glued", they are Ball Grid Array (BGA) packaged ICs and they're soldered to the motherboard. It appears that they use heat guns to desolder the baseband chip, reflash it through the JTAG interface , and solder it back on. Just the physical removal and reinstallation of the chip takes quite a bit of skill to complete without damaging the chip or the circuit board. He must also be a really good coder (or knows one) to have figured out the software part. I'm impressed.- jromney, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8Yeah, the removal and installation of the chip is the most impressive part of this. I've fried many similar ICs myself trying this sort of thing. The fact that they can get that chip off and back on again without completely mangling it shows a considerable level of skill.
What's interesting is that Apple seems to be able to re-flash that chip via the dock connector given that the 2.2 update locks the phone again. Too bad he couldn't figure out how to hack that. I assume there must be some sort of encryption code standing in the way of that method.
- jromney, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8Yeah, the removal and installation of the chip is the most impressive part of this. I've fried many similar ICs myself trying this sort of thing. The fact that they can get that chip off and back on again without completely mangling it shows a considerable level of skill.
- ClubVIP, on 11/29/2008, -1/+4I was in vietnam for a few weeks last year and was amazed at the divide. A lot of people I met couldn't believe I had a mobile phone...and with a light on it (camera flash). Of course, this was in the poor town areas but it was amazing to see peoples faces.
- tonicboy, on 11/30/2008, -1/+2give me a break, you make vietnam sound like some backwater *****. everyone and their mother has a cellphone. only in the tiniest farming village would it be uncommon.
- ClubVIP, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1I have family there so why would I make it sound like a *****? I spent a lot of time in the poor towns and seeing the 'real vietnam life'. No way does everyone have a cell phone.
- tonicboy, on 11/30/2008, -1/+2give me a break, you make vietnam sound like some backwater *****. everyone and their mother has a cellphone. only in the tiniest farming village would it be uncommon.
- TheKappa, on 11/29/2008, -4/+6Does Dong perhaps work for Wang computers?
- pika2000, on 11/29/2008, -0/+4The iPhone is already sold unlocked in Singapore and Hong Kong, right? Anyway, people in Asia has been unlocking iPhones left & right (Indonesia, Thailand, etc), so this article is hardly surprising. Apple is the one missing out for not selling the iPhones unlocked everywhere.
Just another reason for Apple to simply sell the phone unlocked. I don't understand why the consumers, especially in the US, like locked phones so much. In Asia, even discounted phones (not just cheapo phones, but all high end phones from Nokia and SE too) under contracts are not locked.- meghalc, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3If you are in a contract, you can usually get your phone unlocked through the provider. Just tell them you're going over seas and they'll give you the code.
- pika2000, on 11/29/2008, -0/+0I have yet to read/see anybody that get their iPhones unlocked officially by AT&T. AT&T will rather sell you their international roaming plan. Even if they were willing to unlock it (not happening), then why can't Apple just sell them unlocked in the first place?
- meghalc, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3If you are in a contract, you can usually get your phone unlocked through the provider. Just tell them you're going over seas and they'll give you the code.
- DavidChouinard, on 11/29/2008, -6/+1Really bright M. Tuan Anh Do, a photo of your 'illegal' shop spread everywhere on the Internet.
- Ghid, on 11/29/2008, -0/+8It actually is a bright idea, free advertisement. It's not like they're going to shut him down or anything. It's in Vietnam after all.
- mrjeffery, on 11/29/2008, -0/+3If said shop was in USA, perhaps he might have a problem. Things tend to work differently in asia though...
- prophetpimp, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1sorry. the rest of the world doesn't have retarded pro corporate laws.
- dabura, on 11/29/2008, -0/+5I'm Việt, it runs in the blood.
- sgvprelude, on 11/29/2008, -0/+6i-Pho owned...
- djcraze, on 11/30/2008, -3/+1The only difference between this and what the DevTeam is trying to do, is this guy is brute-forcing the code into baseband chip.. What the DevTeam is doing is trying to make an application to write over the baseband without having to use something like JTAG... I mean, we all knew you could do this; so whats the big deal?
- avianna, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2yup, ya got my respect...
- beggersfunk, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Great article, very interesting read indeed.
- clarious, on 11/30/2008, -1/+1I am a Vietnamese, the reason that we have things like this because we are poor, so we have to come up with a cheap, but efficient way to make things work. So everything here is a little bit crazy, have you seen a bicycle carry a scooter, or a "xich lo" (no english work for this) carry a wrecked car, or a truck modified for water bull. Quite funny.
- dxxvi, on 11/30/2008, -0/+0What do you mean by "funny"? To me, it's not funny at all, we use what we have handy to do our work.
- robbob, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Dong's stories from a broad
- Kenny87, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0It's pretty cool to watch developments in "the race to break the iPhone". Very interesting that the 3G has become unbreakable on the software level and now one really cares about going into the iPhone's hardware to break it. But hey, this Vietnamese guys does. Impressive workmanship, but I still don't think I'd trust the guy with my phone... rather just bite the bullet and throw my money at At&T.
But hey, interesting that the ay has come when you can ship your iPhone to Vietnam to get it broken and then operate it here in the U.S., neat example of a flattening world! - sumit1710, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0http://www.dreamydonkey.com/2008/08/rashes-due-to- ...
Rashes due to hot Iphone - eXthus, on 01/06/2009, -0/+0You can unlock your iphone at http://www.unlockiphonehq.com
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