Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for New Car

Osiris · 08-28-2007, 11:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -

The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.
George Hotz, of Glen Rock, N.J., said he had reached the deal with CertiCell, a Louisville, Ky.-based mobile phone repair company.
Hotz posted on his blog that he traded his modified iPhone for "a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones."
"This has been a great end to a great summer," Hotz wrote.
The 17-year-old Hotz said he will be sending the three new iPhones to the three online collaborators who helped him divorce Apple Inc's popular product from AT&T's network. The job took 500 hours, or about 8 hours a day since the iPhone's June 29 launch.
Hotz made the deal with Terry Daidone, co-founder of CertiCell, who also promised the teen a paid consulting job.
"We do not have any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz' discovery," Daidone said in a statement.

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lancec2c30 · 08-28-2007, 12:49 PM

Haha, quite the pay off.

veedubfreak · 08-28-2007, 01:12 PM

Coming next week. Teen sued for unlocking i-phone for profit.

gooogleme · 08-29-2007, 11:37 AM

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Coming next week. Teen sued for unlocking i-phone for profit.

LOL...hehe

wrestlingnrj · 08-29-2007, 11:44 AM

I still don't understand how the kid could be sued for unlocking the iphone when it has been legal to unlock phones in the US for almost a year now.

veedubfreak · 08-29-2007, 12:31 PM

Whats funny is i was right and the kid IS getting sued. I know big companies all too well. Hopefully though this will turn out to set a precedent that locking phones to one provider is horse pocky.

zmatt · 08-29-2007, 06:57 PM

bah if he gets sued I say the hacker community in specific and power users everywhere should untie and DDOS apple's and AT&T's servers until the relent.