T-Mobile to make iPhone unlocking easier for the rest of us?

Besides the fact that it’s only taking seconds, the software version, when checked, remains at 1.1.2, so Apple isn’t making any firmware changes. So, what’s likely happening is iTunes sees the IMEI on Apple’s servers, says “ok, unlock” and there you go.

Real Tech News reminds us that France will be getting the iPhone on the 29th, and they require phones to be unlocked. So this feature, they say, was already in iTunes, making it that much easier for the Germans to use the feature. So if iTunes can be exploited for this unlocking feature, we figure that someone in the U.S. will figure it out soon enough. That is, unless the iPhones in Europe are demonstrably different than those in the U.S. [Real Tech News]]]>