George Hotz, a New Jersey teenager, got most of the attention last week for hacking the iPhone, but at least one other group claims to have come up with a way of liberating Apple’s popular gadget from AT&T’s wireless network. A group calling itself iPhoneSimFree, which first demonstrated its technique to Engadget’s editor, Ryan Block, said it could unlock the iPhone without any changes to the iPhone hardware itself. If it works, the solution could potentially be more broadly accessible to people who want to use their iPhones on GSM networks other than AT&T’s.

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