The quick answer is NOT YET!
Yes there is the USB snoops method documented at iPhone Dev Team’s blog, but it is risky. There is also the George Hotz method, purplera1n, which is not the comparatively safer version from iPhone Dev Team version. Though the iPhone Dev Team did release a video of their unreleased tool unlocking an iPhone 3GS.
The iPhone Dev Team has a good reason for not releasing their tool. They said they want to have a tool that is easy enough for majority of users, and the loophole they exploit with their current beta will most likely be corrected by Apple in the upcoming iPhone firmware 3.1.
Tags: iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3GS, jailbreak, SIM unlock, unlock
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This evening I saw the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Grand Cinema, Elements, West Kowloon, Hong Kong. Another one of the movies from my Must See Movies list.
Before I went to see this movie I avoided all the trailers on TV and at the cinemas, because there were more than the usual number of trailers I did not want to see all the actions from the movie. Luck I did as I was told from others who had watched the trailers, they were the key scenes from each of the action sequences.
It had only been two weeks since the release of iPhone firmware 3.0 and Apple has already released the first beta version of 3.1 to its developers.
The folks at QuickPWN.com has some details on what’s new in 3.1 so far:
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Tags: beta, iPhone 3.1, iPhone firmware 3.1
Jarrett Rush of The Dallas Morning News posted the short post in the Opinion Blog of the newspaper web site titled, Should AT&T be allowed to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier?. This sparked 65 comments on the newspaper web site, several hours ago it made it to the front page on Digg, which collected 191 more comments; as of this writing.
The last comment on Digg being mine, which I had copied here as I did not have enough time to edit my original comment.
Tags: AT&T, exclusivity, SIM unlock
Thanks to the dedicated hard work of the iPhone Dev Team, the iPhone running iPhone firmware 3.0; released on Wednesday, is now jailbreak able.
For the layman, jailbreak is the hack to enable the iPhone to run Apple unauthorized 3rd party applications on your iPhone.
Note: Personally I have less and less of a reason to jailbreak my iPhone, given all the excellent 3rd party applications (free and for fee) available in the Apple iTunes App Store. Especially with the latest iPhone firmware 3.0 added features and improvements.
Doing my part for the iPhone community I have to share with you how to jailbreak your iPhone.
WARNING: the current version of the Pwnage Tool for Macintosh will not include the tool, Ultrasn0w, that allow the “SIM unlock” of the iPhone running the 3.0 firmware. So if your iPhone (not the original iPhone) requires a “SIM unlock” to be able to used as a mobile phone on your current carrier’s network, please refrain from upgrading to 3.0 or use the latest release of Pwnage Tool for Macintosh. The iPhone Dev Team says that QuickPwn for Macintosh, QuickPwn for Windows and Ultrasn0w tools will be released soon.
If you are not an iPhone 3G S owner and you do not have the same believe as I do, then you can follow to iPhone Dev Team’s site to get the excellently made tool.
[Update: 16:00, June 20, 2009]
The iPhone Dev Team has released Redsn0w which will allow the SIM unlock of 1 generation iPhone and iPhone 3G.
[Update: 15:10, June 23, 2009]
The iPhone Dev Team has released Ultrasn0w to allow the unlocking of the iPhone 3G and iPhone running iPhone firmware 3.0. Warning this is NOT
Tags: 3.0, carrier unlock, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3G, jailbreak, SIM unlock, unlock
If you’re not in one of the six countries around the world playing with your new iPhone 3G S. Why not support a friend and a good cause UNHCR.
Join me and Michael at JJ’s in Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong tonight from 21:30 - 23:00.
You can RSVP via telephone at 2584.7606 or email to mandi.ng@hyatt.com.
Tags: Hong Kong, Michael F. Wong, michael wong, UNHCR, Wong Man Tak
As many of you know the iPhone firmware 3.0 comes with the Tethering feature which many have wanted, especially those who have unlimited data plan.
For those who do not know, Tethering is the ability to use the iPhone as a 3G (HSDPA) modem for your computer, connected via Bluetooth or USB.
Since I am not using one of the official Apple carrier partner (3 HK) in Hong Kong, I thought I need to modify the IPCC file from 3 HK, in such a way that it have the proper settings for the carrier I use, Smartone-Vodafone.
To get the latest 3 HK IPCC file I wanted to wait until Wednesday after Apple released the official version of iPhone firmware 3.0 when it also updated 3 HK’s IPCC file.
After modifying the file I was worry that I will mess up my iPhone and cannot go back to it original settings as I do not have a Smartone-Vodafone IPCC file from Apple, so I continued my search for a easier solution.
Tags: 3.0, iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3G, iPhone firmware 3.0, tethering
