Wanna unlock iPhone? Hotz can help you!

Armed with a soldering iron and energy drinks, a teenager has found a way to free Apple's much-hyped iPhone from the AT&T network. The development could represent a serious blow to the US phone giant AT&T, which had been hoping to leverage the popularity of the sexy new phone into a dominant position in the US market. The hack would also allow the phone to be used on networks in countries outside the US. But they failed to take into account 17-year-old George Hotz, and his desire to use the phone on the T-Mobile network. Hotz posted details of the ten step hack on his blog and also a video of the procedure on YouTube. The video has already been viewed more than 130,000 times.

Hotz seems an unlikely candidate to have hacked the world's most hyped product. The recent high-school graduate had little experience hacking cell phones, and by his own admission he feels more comfortable with a soldering iron than a piece of computer code. "My iPhone works with T-Mobile now, and that's all I ever wanted," Hotz told MacNewsWorld, adding that it had taken him about 500 hours to figure out the workaround.