Will an unlocked iPhone turn into an iBrick?

Pretty safe. If you are happy running it a couple of firmwares behind the times, then you dont need to worry about it. iTunes will ask you to update it when updates are available, just ignore it. If you want to keep with the times, then all you have to do is keep an eye on the hack sites such as zibri for firmware update patches. Whenever Apple releases a firmware update, iTunes will start offering the update to you whenever you connect the phone to your computer. You just ignore it until the hackers have a patch for it, then, no bricking issues. I think I read that 1.1.4 patch came out within like a day of the firmware update, so it is not like you are sitting there waiting for months on end. So once the patch comes, you go to Zibri, download the patch. Then you update the iPhone via iTunes (just say 'yes' to the prompt, it does it itself from here*). At this point, you have a brick. Then you run the patching software. It gives you a few unlocking options, from memory you choose 'full jailbreak' or somesuch, it patches, restarts the phone, and you are good to go. Two minutes later - a brick no more. My experience btw in jumping from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4 was that you are best off waiting a few weeks after the patch becomes available for the developers of your third party apps to catch up. * edit - J may recall my panic since I was chatting with him when I reached this point last time. When I did this, I was using an older version of iTunes, which was still reminding me to update, but which was not actually equipped to do it. It downloaded it for me, started to install, then froze up and told me that it was unable to proceed until I updated my iTunes. Panic ensued as it was at a point where it had basically wiped the device and not resynced. I ran the iTunes updater, restarted it and it restored its data and picked up where it left off with no issue. Lesson from this though is to update iTunes before you run it.

Do it yourself, that way when something goes wrong, you're your own tech support. Visit forums such as modmyifone.com and hackint0sh.com The one click unlocker for all iPhones firmwares and versions is ziphone. Its incredible, and extremely easy to do if you can follow simple instructions. http://www.ziphone.org/ GL

i bought it unlocked to 1.1.2, i did the upgrade to 1.1.4 as above.