Dear nerds.

[tyggerjai]

I have an iPhone. I think 2g, 16g. It has the latest firmware, but no sim card (Don't ask. This is China, alright?). So I can't apparently use it for anything - even with an unsupported sim card it doesn't seem to ... do anything.

Now. I don't, actually, want to make phone calls with it. I want mostly to use it as a handy portable wifi device. Does anyone know if that's possible, with an unsupported sim? And, y'know, how to do it? The interwebs tends to assume that you have a supported sim and can work from there, it seems.

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[drwally.livejournal.com]

I was interested in your question and I found that yeah, you would need to jailbreak it as it requires SIM activation. You might be able to jig it with an inactive SIM or the like.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=321344

The final post is the one.