Samsung D780 DuoS on the way - more dual-SIM action from Samsung

The power to wield dual SIM cards is the hotness right now. At least Samsung seems to think so. With the Samsung D880 DuoS holding down the high-end of the dual-SIM market in Europe and the Samsung P240 DuoS bringing up the low-end, Samsung apparently wants to hit the mid-range of with the Samsung D780 DuoS.

Samsung is billing the Samsung D780 as the 300 EUR mid-ranger to handle the dual SIM card duties in a monoblock/candybar form-factor. The Samsung D780 sports a 2 megapixel camera, 2.1-inch QVGA display, tri-band (900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM/EDGE radio, FM radio, and microSD card slot in a 15.7mm thick package.


Interestingly, the Samsung D780 looks just like and sports the same feature-set as the Samsung P240 that Samsung's Russian head Yoonsoo Kim showed off last month. And, just like the Samsung P240, the Samsung D780 is headed to Russia first. Did Mr. Kim mistakenly refer to the lower-end DuoS handset as the P240 instead of the Samsung D780? It would make sense to tag the dual-SIM handset with a "D" rather than the "P" that's reserved for Sammy's upper-range luxury handsets. Is Mr. Kim's Samsung P240 actually the Samsung D780?

We'll just have to wait and see what Samsung does with the Samsung D780 before we know anything…

[Via: Unwired View]

Unlocked Apple iPhones working in Hong Kong with non-AT&T SIM cards?

Could this be the first truly unlocked Apple iPhone? We can’t say for sure, but what we do know is that an unlocked iPhone is reported to be available in Hong Kong - and allegedly works with non-AT&T SIM cards on Hong Kong’s HK CSL wireless network. It looks like incoming and outgoing calls are 100% functional, as are the SMS texts and EDGE data connection. What we don’t know is how the iPhone handles Visual VoiceMail (we suspect that Visual Voicemail is a no-go) and the SIM card.

But, like all things new and hip, and unlocked Hong Kong iPhone will cost ya - about $2,000 to be more specific (the unlocking service will run $750, but you will need your own iPhone).

Now, all we have to go on are these pics that could quite easily be fake, so we’re going to wait to see if this really is the first instance of an iPhone “Holy Grail” - a fully unlocked Apple iPhone. For all we know, these guys could be charging $750 to create a SuperSIM or TurboSIM for you.

Unlocking your non-AT&T SIM for iPhone just got easier - TurboSIM

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just software unlock our iPhones to work on any carrier we wanted? While we’re eagerly awaiting a fully-unlocked, “Holy Grail” solution from our favorite iPhone hackers, we’ll just have to make do with SIM unlocking hacks. The SuperSIM hack that we covered previously will definitely get you up and running on a non-AT&T network, but that particular workaround only worked on V1 SIM cards and required a separate SIM reader/writer.

The newest, and arguably easier, SIM hack comes to us from simbunch and uses the Bladox Turbo SIM. This TurboSIM hack does away with the SIM reader/writer in favor of using just the iPhone.

Grab yourself TurboSIM from Bladox (they’re understandably back-ordered right now, so you’ll have to wait in line) and follow these instructions (from simbunch):

• Jailbreak (link applicable for Windows users)
• SSH enabled (link applicable for Windows users)
• iPhone activated using your own AT&T SIM’s token (DVD Jon’s PhoneActSrv will not work!) (eg. iASign method using AT&T’s ICCID. Link applicable for Windows users)
• You have the Turbo SIM - Blank Version available from Bladox or Votech

Once you have done all that, you can begin with the TurboSIM installation process:

• Connect to your iPhone via SSH(I’m using SFTP in my example)
• Download turbo-cable-utils-iPhone-0.7.0-rev1.tar.gz(much thanks to Zf_)
• Unzip it, and place the entire content of the folder bin-iPhone into the iPhone’s /bin directory. (You can remove the bins after you’re done if you want. Ignore the folder patch.)
• Give executable permission to these files. Chmod +x , or chmod permission to 0755 if you’re using a client like WinSCP
• Download applesaft-0.92.tar.gz
• Unzip it, go to the bin folder in the file you’ve just unzipped, and you will find the file applesaft.trb
• Copy applesaft.trb into your iPhone’s home directory (/private/var/root)
• Disable CommCenter
• Download and/or open the file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist on your iPhone
• Add Disabled just above the text
• Save file and/or upload it back
• Restart iPhone

[Via: simbunch]