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Apple’s High Tech SIM Card Replacement Tools

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Aug 4th 2007 No Comments

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Have apparently garnered the attention of the open source community. The picture below shows the high tech tools Apple provides with their repaired/replacement iPhones.

iphoneclip

That’s right folks, its a paper clip. Now there is a open source project on Google Code.

I am sure the manufacturing processes of paper clips, plastic baggies, and printed sticker instructions are hard kept industry secrets. That is of course the reason they are out to open source the whole process and come up with a free publicly available solution for the SIM card removal process for an iPhone.

Open-Source iClip SVN established on Google Code [via tuaw]
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