Hacking or Unlocking might make iphone permanently inoperable

Apple has said, at the time of the launch in end June, that it expects to sell 1 million units of the iPhone by the end of this month. Apple said it has sold 270,000 of this gadget in the first two days of launch.

Apple Inc said on Monday that programs available on the Internet that allow the iPhone to be used with other service providers besides AT&T’s Cingular network can irreparably damage the device. They said that once an Apple supplied software upgrade is installed on the device it “ will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable.”

Asked how widespread the practice of downloading unlocking software, he replied, “We do not know.” “We are not doing anything proactively to disable iPhones that have been hacked or unlocked”, said Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing told Reuters.

The Cupertino, California-based company also said an iPhone that fails to work because of the installation of the unlocking software is not covered under the warranty.

Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update later this week, the company said in a statement. In the United States, AT&T Inc is the only authorized service provider for the iPhone. “Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones,” the company said.

There are a number of unlocking software programs on the Internet, and, at least two of them, iUnlock and Anysim, can cause the iPhone to stop working once its software is updated, Schiller said.

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