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I have just received a tip via Twitter informing us that Sherif Hashim, the well-known iPhone baseband hacker replied someone asking him (in Arabic) about if the unlock would be ready before 16th January. Hashim has confirmed that the unlock will be available before that date.

[Translated] Gerges2001: @sherif_hashim My military service will start on January 16, will I be able to unlock my iPhone 4 before that date?

Sherif_Hashim: @Gerges2001 sure

We'll have more updates as they come ! Stay tuned for that !

P.S. We're from Egypt and my mother language is Arabic so I could translate this tweet to English.

Couple of days ago, we reported you about the capability of downgrading iPhone 4 baseband 2.10.04 to 1.59.00 which can be unlocked with ultrasn0w, which may be perfect solution to unlock iPhone 4. Few minutes ago, Sherif Hashim the well-known iPhone hacker has replied someone via his twitter account confirming that work on 3.10.01 baseband is in progress.

Prostat_Pukis asking: that unlock will be for BB 03.10 as well?
sherif_hashim replying: yes

Don't ask about the timing as till now there's now estimate to arrival, but my own expectations that we will see something by the Xmas, stay tuned.

In case you are living under rocks, you may don't know that Ultrasn0w carrier unlock will be updated tomorrow (this Sunday) to provide a full unlock for iPhone 3GS / 3G on baseband 05.15.04 and lower ones. Anyway, iPhone 4 unlockers will have to wait a bit longer but we have good news for you too.


iPhone hacker Sherif Hashim is doing a great progress in unlocking iPhone 4 baseband 02.10.04 on iOS 4.2.1 / iOS 4.1 since he, according to this tweet, has provided very nice crashes for iPhone 4 baseband, also the iPhone Dev Team will start exploring more starting from this Monday.

Faiz: @MuscleNerd btw @sherif_hashim was working on i4 since long ? Did he not find anything interesting.

MuscleNerd: @mfaizulislam just the opposite :) @sherif_hashim has provided very nice crashes for i4 BB, which we can explore more starting Monday :)

This news gives some hope to iPhone 4 users who stuck on iOS 4.2.1 or iOS 4.1 with upgraded baseband as BB 02.10.04 or BB 03.10.01. More updates as they come! Stay tuned !