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When buying a 3G Apple iPhone in most markets you are automatically tied to a network such as At&T in the US and O2 in the UK. This means you won??™t be able to use any other operators sim card in your iPhone.

Deal Extreme have just launched the i-SmartPhone Operator Network SIM Card Unlock Attachment for Apple iPhone 3G that frees your iPhone from the network lock allowing you to use any other operators sim card in your iPhone that costs just $16.99 including shipping worldwide.

More info at Deal Extreme.

A brazilian company posted in their blog a video showing iPhone 3G working with a SIM card of a local operator.

25 year old Breno Massi, CEO of the company, first in the world succeeded in overtaking the iPhone protection.

Apple’s plans do not include iPhone 3G sellings in Brazil soon. Most likely this is the main reason for local specialist to hack it.

Apple consider releasing a ‘free’ iPhone in Brazil at a price not higher than $250.

Apple Inc. announced one million iPhone 3G sold so far. The new device was officially put in sale on July 11th. That lead to increasing the corporation shares by 2%.

‘iPhone 3G had a great debut weekend. First iPhone needed 74 days to sell one million devices’ said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

First generation of the smartphone was introduced in the end of June 2007 and it was only selling in USA. During first weekend 270,000 devices were sold and the sales reached a million in September. The new iPhone is in sale in 21 countries and they will increase to 70 by the end of the year.

The new iPhone 3G was officially put in sale on July 11th after a broad advertising campaign world wide.

But we think you should think twice before purchasing it because:

- Applications cannot work in background mode. Only one application can be runned and executed.
- Screen resolution is only 480×320 which is a lot less than VGA (640×480) and W-VGA (800×480) used in some devices with Windows.
- The camera is only 2 megapixels while there are many devices with 3 to 5 megapixel cameras out there.
- No video recording.
- No reserve battery.
- No office documents editing, viewing only.
- Applications are about 500 while applications for Windows Mobile are more than 20,000.
- Applications can be used only on Mac.
- Works only with the operator which it was bought from and there is a contract attached.
- Display can be touch only with fingers and no nails which would be suitable for women.
- No phisical keyboard

The first iPhone 3G went on sale at 8AM EST time zone in New Zealand where Jonny boy was the first person in the world to purchase the iPhone 3G.

Although the official start of selling iPhone 3G in USA is scheduled for next Monday, the first and most impatient fans of iPhone already went to one of the most popular Apple Stores - the one on Fifth avenue in New York.