Sherif Hashim reports that Apple has blocked the trick to activate iPhone with Phonebook SIM card. Sherif Hashim is the same guy who found the trick to activate iPhone with Phonebook SIM card and exploit to unlock iPhone baseband.
iPhone Activation via Phonebook SIM card was the best thing in the age of Spirit and Jailbreakme jailbreaks which required your iDevice to be activated before using the jailbreak. However, with tools like Limera1n, Greenpois0n, PwnageTool and Sn0wbreeze featuring bootrom exploit, there’s no need for any SIM to active iPhone because jailbreak tools do this (hacktivation) for you.
