Yesterday we reported how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the Web with it. You just have to use a TurboSIM card.

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Some people express their displeasure with apple with the popular medium of the day to make the object of their frustration appear foolish and hypocritical in an entertaining manner.

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In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple.

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The following is a concept video produced by LonelySandwich.com demonstrating cut and paste on the iPhone. It's a feature that's sorely lacking on the phone.

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Well would you look at that, instructions are now available for downgrading your iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. It won't downgrade your baseband, meaning so far you can't re-unlock an iPhone that's been 1.1.1-ified, but it's still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory.

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And they just keep coming in. The latest iPhone-related lawsuit is aimed not only at the iPhone maker, but at the exclusive iPhone carrier (AT&T), as well as Mr. Steve Jobs himself.

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It seems that several iPhone owners has had problems after installing this update. Read some interesting facts below.

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As we all know, the iPhone is one of the most notorious gadgets in the world at this time, but since Apple's policies regarding the free use of any mobile network with their phone didn't seem to leave any other way out for the users than to unlock the deviceâ?;?¦

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If you went ahead an installed 1.1.1 only to end up with a Jonathan Ive-designed paperweight at the end of it, you’ve got a couple of choices: go to your nearest Apple store, tail between your legs, and hope they take pity on you and fix your iPhone somehow, or turn to your friendly neighbourhood hack-community and see what functionality they can restore.  Over at the Apple-Touch forums we’re pointed in the direction of some instructions that promise at least a partial restore; in this case, use of all but the GSM functionality unless you’re using the original AT&T SIM. 

So, if you can make do with WiFi connectivity, this might just be your salvation; basically it downgrades all but the baseband to firmware version 1.0.2 - not perfect but we’re told that the team are still beavering away.  Full instructions after the cut…

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