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[iPhone] Firmware 3.0 Unlock Release Date

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Muscle Nerd of the iPhone Dev Team revealed some more infos about the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0 unlock. It will be called “Ultrasn0w” and will be available on this week’s friday.

Muscle Nerd expects the unlock to be also applicable to the iPhone 3Gs, since it uses the same baseband version . But as the unlock requires jailbreaking it is currently not sure if a jailbreak can be easily performed on the 3Gs aswell.

The video is courtesy of the iPhone Dev Team, please forward to 2:00 to see the procedure to unlock…

[iPhone] Firmware 3.0 Sim-Unlocked

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The iPhone Dev Team has admitted they got iPhone OS 3.0 hacked with jailbreak and unlock via yellowsn0w. They will perform a live demo on tuesday evening (US time – means in the middle of the night in europe). They are currently testing updated versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn to fully work with iTunes 8.2.

Find more information here.

[iPhone] Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5

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The QuickPwn.com team has released a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 build 7a312G. It is based on the work by santtiaga from iPhoneApps.ru. Also Cydia is now working on iPhone OS 3.0.

If you are no developer we strongly recommend not to update to any beta of iPhone OS 3.0, because:

  1. downloading and distribution of the beta freely on the net is illegal
  2. although this jailbreak seems to work it has not been distributed by the iPhone Dev Team (as they recommend exactly the same like we do)
  3. most of the Apps available on the AppStore will still not work with iPhone OS 3.0
  4. this beta still has bugs all over
  5. for iPhone 3G users this update may render an unlock impossible

Be warned.

[iPhone] iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 seeded to Devs

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Together with iTunes 8.2 beta a new iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 has been made available to developers. There are no information about changes, but the Spotlight.app is reported to be faster and issues with a crashing Phone.app seem to have been solved.

As always: if you are no developer don’t install this beta, as you would need to download it from illegal places anyway. It is unstable and even if you were be able to jailbreak, you will not be able to unlock as this update also includes a baseband upgrade, that is currently not unlockable.

Don’t say we did not warn you!

[iPhone] Apple to present iPhone OS 3.0 feature’s tomorrow

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The News

According to several U.S. journalists, Apple will present the iPhone firmware 3.0 tomorrow. As of now there are some rumors, that it eventually will contain:

  • MMS
  • Bluetooth and USB Tethering
  • Copy and Paste

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As a normal cell fon user you may ask if this is really worth the  news, since both MMS and tethering is standard in almost any 10US$ cell. Well you are right. But this is the Apple world. Apple knows by including these features their clan of fanboys will immediately be satisfied. The internet will be immediately full of flames if anyone utters criticism. Anyway we don’t believe it will have all those three features. It will have one. Firmware 4.0 will than have another of these and so on.

And there is still the question of Sun Java or Adobe Flash. What about these? Will we have them in firmware 8.0 or never? We really like the iPhone’s UI. It definitely brought the mobile internet thing major steps forward, but we expect the iPhone’s time is up. We currently recommend to not buy an iPhone or GPhone, but wait for the Palm Pre with WebOS.

Did you know the Palm Pre is beeing developed by the former Apple iPod creator Jon Rubinstein?

[iPhone] Jailbird for Windows to Replace WinPwn

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There seems to be a new kid on the block called Jailbird. Jailbird is an independent implementation of exploits the iPhone Dev Team found in order to

  • activate,
  • jailbreak and
  • sim-unlock
  • all firmware revisions 2.x

As WinPwn has not been updated for a while this is amazing news for the Windows users among us.

See Jailbird’s Website for further information…

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[iPhone] iPhone 3G Unlock “yellowsn0w” on Distribution

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… by the iPhone Dev Team. You guys really rock. The unlock tool requires a jailbroken iPhone 3G and either Cydia or the Installer installed to download the unlock program called “yellowsn0w” from the Dev Team’s repository.

The tool gets distributed for free. Anyway some code-thieves are obviously already selling it by saying it is their work. Find further information about yellowsn0w on the Dev Team’s blog.

And yes: happy new year guys. We’re back from vacation and Berlin is full of “white snow” :-))

[iPhone] iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev Team

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The release of the 3G unlock software (currently going under the name yellosn0w) is due to december 31., 2008. The unlock will currently only available for baseband version 2.11.07 or lower.

Between Chrismas and new year’s eve members of the team (planetbeing, MuscleNerd and pytey) will be giving a lecture about the security systems in both the iPhone 2G and 3G on the Chaos Computer Conference 2008.

Welcome to Berlin, guys. Enjoy the most interesting and inconsistent town in Europe, today :-)

[iPhone] iPhone 3G Hardware unlocked in Vietnam

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CNet.com reports Tuan Anh Do, a 29 years old business man from Hanoi, now offers hardware unlocking services for the iPhone 3G. He is owner of a couple of cell phone repair stores and he now managed to find a rather painless way to unlock the iPhone 3G and offer that as a service to customers. Unlocking costs about 80US$.

Tuan Anh Do is well known to the iPhone scene as TAmobile (Link here). He was also the first to extract the bootloader from the first generation iPhones.

Unfortunately unlocking requires desoldering, binary modifying and resoldering of the baseband chip and is therefore by far not fool proof. Painless unlocking here means “painless” for experiences solder technicians. For the rest of us we either plan a Vietnam holiday or wait for a store to offer that service around the corner. Anyway, find the whole story and some more really amazing pictures on Dong Ngo’s article on CNet.com.

Picture is courtesy of CNet.com

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[iPhone] Venezuelan iPhone 3G Hack is Fake

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The spanish speaking blog Maczalandia reported some days ago that a venezuelan team around the hacker Gabo managed to hack the 3G iPhone. After having examined the custom firmware provided by the team, the iPhone Dev Team found this is a fake. The custom ipsw is usable with 2G iPhones only and… has… been prepared with the iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool. More infos to be found on the hackint0sh blog.