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And its easy too, but there’s a catch. It needs to have bootloader version 5.08, which mine conveniently does. If you have 5.09 or newer, you’re still screwed for now.

Full and idiot-proof instructions on iClarified. Essentially all it does is downgrade the baseband firmware of your iPhone to a version that the existing soft unlock tools work with. It worked perfectly on my O2 iPhone.

Skype for the iPhone and iPod touch was recently released on the Apple AppStore, and it works just fine once you stay on a wifi connection. The app has built-in restrictions to prevent you from making Skype voice calls when on a cellular network, mainly because of Apple’s cosy deals with their various network partners around the world.

Fortunately, clever people have made a way to work around this restriction using a little package called VoIPover3G from Cydia (Cydia is the package manager of choice for jailbroken iphones).

Full instructions are here. VoIPover3G has been updated since that article was written to have Skype support built-in, so you can skip the steps involving editing of the plist file.

On a geeky side note, you can actually run nano directly on the iPhone when you SSH to it rather than copying the file to a computer, editing it there and then copying it back

Skype over 3G on iPhone

That’s the end result – working Skype calls via the mobile operator’s network, charged at data rates! Although if you are on 3, I would have my doubts about it working. They seem to traffic-shape the crap out of VoIP from my experiences with Fring when I was with them.

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The YouTube comments on this are both funny and completely retarded.

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Today I switched my mobile phone contract over from O2 to 3. I’ve been using O2 for about five years but their lack of any upgrade offer or anything else as an incentive for me to renew my contract means they’re out the door

I joined 3 on their cheapest tarriff (€19 – 100 minutes to all networks) and got a lovely Sony Ericsson K800i from them. Surprisingly I actually get 3G coverage at home. I also went for the €5.99 mobile broadband add-on which gives me 100MB worth of internet traffic per month – perfect for frequent email/news access. They offer unlimited traffic for €20 a month on top of your tarriff, though I’m sure they mean unlimited in the ridiculous Irish ISP sense of the word – i.e. unlimited as long as we don’t think you’re using it too much.

Anyways – K800i – awesome phone. I had a K750i on O2 (who are dragging their heels about unlocking it) and that was a good phone, but this is a great step up. Lovely high-res screen and 3 megapixel camera. That’s nice, but as usual with phone cams and their tiny, tiny lenses the image quality is not comparable to a proper 3MP digital camera. The K750i’s charger and accessories are compatible with the K800i also.

3’s network coverage here in Kilkenny seems pretty good, I haven’t seen any non-3G spots yet, although I’d put money on it not being available where I work. Word has it that 3 users get serviced by Vodafone’s network in areas where they have no coverage, which suits me as Vodafone’s network has always had excellent coverage around here.

The only problem I’ve had so far is that the mobile broadband add-on wasn’t working at first, but that was quickly resolved by a call to customer service, where (*shock*) I didn’t have to hold in a queue before getting served.

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