Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way

One way of updating your iPhone 3G is by having it physically unlocked by an industrious Vietnamese mobile phone hacker. The process starts with a technician opening up the phone and striping it to the motherboard. Next the hacker extracts the baseband chip, the component that controls the connection between the phone and the mobile network, from the motherboard. Once the chip is removed chip reader reads the information into a file. Then a Hex editor is used to remove the locking data from the file, and after that the chip gets reprogrammed with the newly altered file. Now it is no longer programmed to work with only a specific provider. Finally the chip is put back into the motherboard and placed back into the phone like nothing ever happened. 

This is a really good article because of the description given. It goes step by step through the process of hacking into the iPhone. Although this very illegal and something about it seems to be a little unsettling I think this is overall a good idea. Why does corporate think they can capitalize on the iPhone and dictate what serve we can use because apple made a deal with at&t. Apple's job is to make a good product and sell it at a reasonable price not tell the consumer what to do with their product.