Looks like the iPhone is in for some legal problems. In a recent development. Lawyers have gone ahead and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T seeking $1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone is locked to AT&T’s wireless network. The suit also notes that Apple will not allow unauthorized applications on the iPhone. The suit has been filed on behalf of Paul Holman in the State of Washington and Lucy Rivello in California and it explains that in the United States the SIM chip is locked to the wireless carrier, not the hardware device. When Apple released the iPhone it had tied the device to AT&T. So,switching out the SIM with one from another carrier simply caused an error when the phone was rebooted. But later on some so called experts figured out a way to unlock the phone.

Further, the lawsuit also states that Apple didn’t discover that unlocking applications would harm the iPhone as it stated earlier. Rather, the suit says that Apple engineered the software update to disable the phones on purpose. Prime people in the case Paul Holman purchased two iPhones and used third-party applications, as well as traveling abroad. Lucy Rivello said she wants to be able to use third-party applications and unlock her phone to switch to T-Mobile if she wants to.

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