Last week a british customer of an iPhone 3G found photos on his just activated iPhone 3G. Those photos were showing a girl from the factory plant of Foxconn nearby Shenzhen. A factory representative said to not intend to fire that girl. We all really hope that’s true. Pictures are courtesy of http://www.iphonegirl.net. Visit their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iPhone 3G’
[iPhone] The iPhone Girl not to be fired by Foxconn
September 1st, 2008 
J. Epstein 
Posted in News 
Tags: 3G, British customer, Foxconn, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone Girl, Shenzen, Shenzhen 
No Comments »[iPhone] Status Report for iPhone 3G Unlock Solutions
August 26th, 2008 J. Epstein Abstract There have been rumors about circumventing that annoying SIM lock. As Geohot stated (read here), modifying the 3G baseband will not be an easy task. Because this task still needs to be solved, some guys thought bypassing simlock by using Proxy SIMs might be a good idea for 3G iPhones as well. Differences between [...]
Posted in News Tags: befreiphone, iPhone 3G, iPhonix, Proxy SIM, ProxySIM, Rebel SIM, RebelSIM, SIM proxy, sim unlock, SIMProxy, StealthSIM, Turbo SIM, TurboSIM, Universal SIM, Yes SIM, YesSIM 3 Comments »[iPhone] iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 released – don’t update!
August 19th, 2008 J. Epstein We’re back. All articles should still be available. Nothing more to tell. As we expected the 2.0.1 firmware was still buggy like 2.0 and since yesterday night, Apple offers firmware 2.0.2 for iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. They claim this firmware version solves UMTS/3G issues for iPhone 3G users. Besides that information Apple don’t tell [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2.0.2, 201, firmware, iPhone, iPhone 3G, modem firmware, Pwnage Tool, UMTS, update No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G Proxy Unlock Available in Germany (update)
July 25th, 2008 J. Epstein Update July 27th, 2008: In their testing program Juma found issues with some european carriers using 3G technique. In contrast to other SIM proxy manufacturers, Juma does not want to sell solutions that don’t work 100% on either GSM or 3G/UMTS networks. Customers who had already ordered got full refund on saturday and sunday. Anyway: [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, carrier free, crack, iPhone 3G, Jailbreak, provider free, sim unlock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] Firmware 2.1 Beta and new SDK for Developers
July 25th, 2008 J. Epstein Apple has just released the new firmware 2.1 beta to developers. Firmware 2.1 brings a better GPS integration for 3G devices to allow using it as a real navigation receiver. The GPS feature “Core Location” can now also detect the speed and the direction of your moves. For 2G and 3G users there will be [...]
Posted in News Tags: firmware 2.1, firmware 2.1 beta, Firmware Update, gps, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, SDK No Comments »[iPhone] xPwn 0.3 Released
July 22nd, 2008 J. Epstein The restless working iPhone Dev Team has just released the source-code of their commandline tool collection xPwn. Although the tool collection allows to jailbreak (iPhone 2G and 3G) and unlock (iPhone 2G only), it targets mainly at developers. Get the source-code for Linux, MacOS X and Windows and here. Planetbeing of the iPhone Dev Team [...]
[iPhone] iPhone 3G Baseband Bootloader 5.8 Dumped
July 22nd, 2008 J. Epstein Ta_Mobile of the Vietnamese hardware division GSMVN succeeded in dumping the baseband bootloader 5.8 of an iPhone 3G. Ta_Mobile has also dumped bootloader 4.6. Reverse engineering of the 3G bootloader will now begin to find possible exploits. Don’t expect anything soon, but this is great news anyway. Congrats to Vietnam. Standing work, guys…
Posted in News Tags: Bootloader 5.8, gsm.com.vn, GSMVN, iPhone, iPhone 3G, ta_mobile, Unlock 2 Comments »[iPhone] HowTo Activate and Unlock your iPhone using Pwnage 2.0
July 21st, 2008 J. Epstein Article is outdated. Find newest Jailbreak and Unlock HowTo for iPhone Firmware 3.0 here. Note We need to stress: respect the laws of the country you live in. For instance as german citizen with a T-Mobile Germany plan and iPhone you are not allowed to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone. T-Mobile is not kidding in [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs Tags: 0wnage, Activate, Firmware 2.0, iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, jailbrak, Jailbreak, Pwnage, Pwnage Tool, Pwnage Tool 2.0, Pwrnage, Pwrnage Tool, Unlock 16 Comments »[iPhone] Pwnage Tool 2.0 released
July 20th, 2008 J. Epstein Eventually the iPhone Dev Team released their long awaited Pwnage Tool 2.0 for Mac. You can download here and here. As expected it supports jailbreaking and unlocking of “old” iPhones and jailbreaking of 3G iPhones and iPod Touch. It’s been reported there are issues with installing the installer.app. Note that this is only the Apple [...]
[iPhone] iPhone 3G unlocked using Bladox Turbo SIM
July 19th, 2008 J. Epstein [Update] Aug/25th/2008: read here, everything you gotta know about Proxy SIM solutions. The Bladox Team has released an application for their Turbo SIM (see here how proxy SIMs work) that is obviously able to bypass the SIM lock of 3G iPhones – means unlocking it. The application is still beta and might not work on [...]
Posted in News Tags: Bladox, carrier lock, country lock, iPhone 3G, provider lock, SIM Lock, sim unlock, SIMLock, Turbo SIM, TurboSIM, Unlock 1 Comment »[iPhone] iPhone 3G sold out in Switzerland
July 18th, 2008 J. Epstein Switzerland a beautiful country and a wonderful place to buy 3G iPhones. The Swiss carrier Swisscom offers the iPhone 3G with a prepaid SIM card. Forum reports confirm that foreigners can buy these aswell. Only two problems remain: first the Swisscom iPhone is completely sold out on Switzerland and second it is SIM locked to [...]
[iPhone] iPhone 3G confirmed unlocked using SIM Adapter X-SIM
July 17th, 2008 J. Epstein There were some rumors two days ago (we reported here), that the Brasil based company DesbloqueioBr.com.br unlocked the iPhone 3G by using a SIM proxy adapter. Today a confirmation comes from Vietnam. Two well known guys from the vietnamese forum GSM.com.vn going by the nicks TA_Mobile and Immb published some photographs showing a SIM proxy [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, activation, immb, iPhone 3G, ta_mobile, unlock 2.0, X-SIM 1 Comment »[iPhone] iPhone 3G sold out in Germany
July 17th, 2008 J. Epstein While the iPhone 3G has just been launched in France (we reported here), in Germany T-Mobile must be quite content, because iPhones over here are completely sold out. Currently it is not clear, when new iPhones can be delivered by Apple. T-Mobile needed to set some thousand customer orders pending. T-Mobile said they already sold [...]
[iPhone] iPhone 3G Launch in France
July 17th, 2008 J. Epstein Since today also the french customers can obtain the new iPhone 3G. Prices vary between 509€/8GB model and 609€/16GB model. As expected it is SIM locked, but the french carrier Orange is legally obliged to SIM unlock . The fee is said will be at about 100€. » See our current SIM lock/carrier list here.
[iPhone] iPhone 3G allegedly unlocked using SIM Adapter
July 15th, 2008 J. Epstein [Update] Aug/25th/2008: read here, everything you gotta know about Proxy SIM solutions. The Brazilian based company DesbloqueioBr.com.br claims to have unlocked the 3G iPhone. The whole procedure is like a deja-vu. It is said it works almost the same like with TurboSIM for the “old” iPhone. The difference is they say they make use of [...]
Posted in iOS, Labs Tags: Activate, DesbloqueioBr.com.br., Firmware 2.0, IMSI test card, iPhone 3G, Scam, SIM Adapter, SIM proxy, Turbo SIM, TurboSIM, Unlock 1 Comment »[iPhone] XPwn Command Line Utility released
July 15th, 2008 J. Epstein As member of the iPhone Dev Team, planetbeing today released “XPwn”. He describes “XPwn” as an experimental pwnage tool for Linux. Although XPwn was proposedly developed for Linux users, it actually is a cross-platform tool for command line users. Update: It does not support firmware 2.0 yet. Warning The XPwn tool is not intended to [...]
Posted in News Tags: experimental Pwnage, iPhone 3G, iPhone pwn, iPhwn, Linux, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, macos x, MacOSX, Pwnage Tool, sim unlock, unlock firmware 2.0, Windows, XPwn 1 Comment »[iPhone] One Million 3G iPhones sold
July 14th, 2008 J. Epstein Only three days ago on friday, 11th 2008 the iPhone 3G has been launched in 21 countries. Until saturday, 12th (means on first weekend) one million 3G iPhones have been sold. Last year it took 74 days to sell that amount of iPhones. Steve Jobs will be very glad about this. Since this makes about [...]
[iPhone] Geohot confirms 3G uses new Bootloader
July 14th, 2008 J. Epstein Although we didn’t get our hands on a new iPhone 3G yet, things are as expected: the iPhone 3G uses a new bootloader for its baseband modem as confirmed by Geohot. Bootloader versions from the “old” iPhones As far as we are aware the there are those 3 different bootloader versions known on old iPhones: [...]
Posted in News Tags: baseband, Bootloader, Bootneuter, Firmware 2.0, GeoHot, George Hotz, iBoot, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone UMTS, Jailbreak, Unlock, yiPhone 3 Comments »[iPhone] Activation and iTunes Download Servers collapsed
July 11th, 2008 J. Epstein The iPocalypse has begun. Many iPhone 3G customers all over the world report activation issues after having bought their new gadget. The same also applies to customers of the “old” iPhone who tried to update to firmware 2.0 and needed to re-activate. We recommend weather to upgrade nor to buy a new iPhone 3G now. [...]
Posted in News Tags: activation issues, Firmware 1.2, Firmware 2.0, iPhone 3G, iPocalypse No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G hits eBay
July 11th, 2008 J. Epstein First auctions here in Germany are already running out. As expected (read here): prices are strongly tending to 1,000€. We’re tracking this auction to see the final price – please don’t place bids. This is for entertainment and for fun only. Currently the price is at 760€ with 8hrs remaining. You could buy two 3G [...]