The WSJ is reporting that China Telecom employees may have unlocked the Verizon iPhone for use on their CDMA network.
A post signed the "Apple Lab Team" on the Sina Weibo account identified as belonging to the Guangdong branch of China Telecom said Tuesday the "CDMA iPhone 4 has made its first call in China" without a hitch. Preceding posts included a photo of a Verizon Wireless iPhone beside a tag labeled China Telecom Guangdong, then a photo of the device displaying the home screen for Cydia, a software application that allows users to find applications and software packages for jailbroken Apple devices.
The team reveals that the phone was jailbroken with Greenpois0n for Mac; however, its not really clear if the phone has been unlocked to use a China Telecom number or whether the phone has just made a call over China Telecom's network using a Verizon number.
The employees’ microblog says to stay tuned for more "pleasant surprises."
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Rafaz - February 18, 2011 at 1:05am
First thing... You dont Unlock CDMA phones.. You flash em.
And its not that hard to put on different cdma provider
Jailbreak + change the phone settings to ur current provider.
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cdmaiphone - February 17, 2011 at 4:51pm
this has been done in the us too. i have mine active on cricket. nothing new. the real hurdle to be accomplished would be to get web and mms settings. which they havent done due to no 3g signal.
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fenrry - February 17, 2011 at 4:40pm
Upps, the chinadevteam just owned the american dev team!!!
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Boris - February 17, 2011 at 4:07pm
FAKE!! The phone in the picture isn't the Verizon iPone. It still has the 'old' antenna design (at&t), the Verizon iPone hasn't got the lines at the top of the antenna ring.
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stefano - February 17, 2011 at 4:25pm
youre wrong. i just compared my vz iphone and theres no difference from my handset and that picture
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