The iPhone Dev Team has been hard at work, and their hard work paid off. They have unlocked the iPhone 3G and will be releasing the method/app on New Years Eve. They did warn everyone to NOT update to the iPhone 2.2 Firmware (it upgrades the Baseband, and they have spent all this time working on the 2.1 Baseband). So if you have an iPhone 3G running 2.1 (or earlier) Firmware, you will be able to unlock you iPhone (so long as you Jailbreak it first with Pwnage Tool or QuickPwn).
From the Dev Teams Blog:
We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.
- The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
- This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
- You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
- The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
- Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.
- We’ll stream a live demo of the unlock before Christmas (see the update at the end of this post)
March 24, 2009 at 5:03 pm |
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