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+Today is independence Day in the U.S. and to celebrate we've got a link to DVD Jon's hack to use the iPhone without AT&T service. It requires a Windows machine and bit of hex editing (if I'm understanding it right, for obvious reasons Jon doesn't exactly give detailed instructions), but users report that it does seems to work.
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+If the comments on the thread, Jon notes that there's an even easier way to activate the phone sans AT&T, provided you know someone who has an activated phone and is willing to risk it:
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+>If you know someone who has already activated their iPhone, borrow their SIM. Insert the SIM in the non-activated iPhone. Then cradle the new iPhone in the dock with iTunes. iTunes then quickly activates the new phone with ATT. This only took about 2-3 min. Now.. the only possible issue is that it might disable the original phone? But I have nothing to base this on, this is more or less a warning. I did not have access to the original phone after the process was done.
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+Another poster in the thread raises an interesting question, if you apply the hack, activate the phone and then decide you want to go ahead and legitimately register with AT&T will it work? So far no one seems to know the answer to that question.
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+There have been several articles around the web about how Apple might live to regret it's exclusive deal with AT&T, however, given the nature of these early hacks it seems that AT&T might be the ones that end up regretting the deal. Certainly if nothing else they're seeing a heap of bad press with countless reviews repeating the manta iPhone good, AT&T bad.
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+And who better to release the first iPhone unlocking patch than DVD Jon -- given that he's already unlocked DVDs, iTunes tracks and host of other DRM measures?
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