Officially, the iPhone only works for people signed up with Apple’s USA Partner, AT&T. But hackers in India intent on unlocking Apple’s iPhone so that it can be used using Indian Cellphone Network’s Sim Card.

But the problem is that, when unlocked, unlocked iPhone will only work as an internet browser device and iPod, not as a phone.

A blog called unlockuriphone.com offer the service to unlock iPhones for “a small fee” as soon as it has cracked the code, and it requires owners to send their iPhone’s International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.

According to many people’s report, the hack absolutely requires a heavy amount of computer knowledge and hard work.

DVD Jon, who is best recognized for breaking the digital rights management (DRM) protection on tracks bought from iTunes, said that there was a second, easily done, way to unlock the iPhone, but it is ephemeral on borrowing the SIM card from a accurately “activated” iPhone, and the aftermath of this could be to disable the latter.

In a discrete development, hackers claimed to have found out six-letter passwords to the iPhone, one being the device’s “root password”, but it was not promptly clear what their use was.

“Some have suggested that the password file was left over from original development work, or was deliberately included to throw hackers off the aroma,” a report on builderau.com, an Australian web development site, said.

iPhones were still being advertised on eBay for as much as Rs.40,000 now-a-days, suggesting that there is demand for the device among non US-based buyers.