iPhone Hackers: Bring it on, Apple, we’ll just find another way to unlock the iPhone

Apple has made it abundantly clear that they don’t want iPhone owners to unlock their iPhones or install third-party applications. They’ve gone so far as to suggest that the upcoming iPhone update will turn your iPhone into a $400 (or $600, depending on when you bought it) paper-weight if you’ve previously unlocked your iPhone.

With the new update slated to enable the WiFi iTunes Music Store feature later this week, iPhone owners will undoubtedly be eager to install the new update. However, that leaves all those unlocked iPhone fans out in the cold. What’s an iPhone-rebel to do? Forego the update and sacrifice added features and safety for an unlocked GSM radio? Well, the iPhone Dev Team (the guys responsible for the free iPhone software unlock solution) has announced that, not only will they be releasing an iPhone re-lock (to reverse the unlock process), but they’ll be hard at work to find a new way to crack the baseband radio.

Here’s the post on the iPhone Dev Team wiki:

“When the 1.1.1 firmware detects that the modem baseband has been modified it will may turn the Iphone into a Ibrick and it will may not be able to make calls (according to Apple). Users who have unlocked they’re phones should not update (their) firmware when it comes up later this week (Within the next few days). This will also restrict the Jailbreak method. (Which will probably take a few days to find a work around). To the DEV team: Please start the AnySim 1.0.2 PXL package for the new firmware. Apple Iphone users around the world NEED YOU!”

Fear not, iPhone-rebel, the iPhone Dev Team’s got your back. Just hold off on that update until you can revert your iPhone back to its virgin state. Unless you want to try that iPhone re-lock hack that we mentioned yesterday.