It took the iPhone Dev Tream only a couple of days to break the new iPhone 2.2 firmware but I guess they have gotten used to doing that already. You can get your version today. Go for QuickPwn if you have a Windows PC or choose the new Pwnage Tool for Macs.

The iPhone Dev Team said they did break the beta 2.2 which means breaking the final version must have been a walk in the park. As always make sure you know what you’re doing when jailbreaking your iPhone and back up everything that needs to be backed up first.

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As the G1 runs the Android open-source OS, trying to jailbreak the phone seems rather silly. But apparently some clever people went ahead and pulled it off. Jailbreaking the G1 means you can install any application you want without being restricted to what’s officially supported.

But don’t worry sports’ fans! T-Mobile strikes back. The new firmware update, RC30 takes care of the whole jailbreaking thing! RC30 will block that telnetd which was used to get root access which means you won’t be able to do exactly anything with your G1. Anything that HTC, T-Mobile or Google wouldn’t want you to do. Here’s what Google said:

We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.

Your move jailbreakers!

One of my unsettled iPhone problems is the copy paste issue. Sure Apple is thinking out of the box about a voice controlled copy and paste command but that’s going to be available in the distant future. By that time I would have already found a way to copy paste stuff. Especially since I kind of like to write a lot and therefore I would need it.
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Wow, these guys can really move. It seems the people behind Quickpwn.com have already broken the iPod touch’s 2.1 firmware. Yeah, the firmware that was released on Tuesday.

It isn’t exactly a walk in the park to get your 2.1 iPod touch free of Apple’s grasp, but it seems easy enough. If you head here they give you a break down of just how you go about doing the jailbreak, only 12 steps, seems simple enough.

Now, lets start the betting on how long it takes for the iPhone 2.1 firmwareto get jailbroken.

It looks like everyone Pwns today. iTunes 8 has a new protection layer against iPhone Dev Team and their Pwnage Tool. This new layer will make your iPhone or iPod touch invisible in iTunes. Think Apple has won the battle?

Well guess again, the iPhone Dev Team has patches ready for the new iTunes 8. A patch for Mac iTunes 8 for iPod touch is already done and more support is expected to arrive next week. That means you can still access your iTunes 8 from your jailbroken phone.

It doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the iPhone Dev Team has already launched version 2.0.3 of their PwnageTool. It was a necessary update following Apple’s 2.0.2 firmware update.

Version 2.0.3 brings you support for iPhone and iPod touch firmware 2.0.2 5C1, an updated version of Installer.app beta 6 and a new localization for German speaking users.

Well go on now, jailbreak your phone now. It’s safe!

After releasing jailbreaking software for both the Apple and Windows platforms it appears that the iPhone Dev Team is working on a faster software to jailbreak your phone called QuickPwn. With Pwnage Tool you would be required to perform a full Restore on your iPhone before getting access to its file system. And since Apple is rolling out firmware updates, the Dev Team will have to keep up and roll corresponding jailbreak solutions if required.
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Just a few days after Apple rolled out their iPhone Software update 2.0.1, the iPhone Dev Team has released their Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 today. The new Pwnage Tool will do the same thing as its predecessors. It will jailbreak iPhone’s software in a minute. Well actually not that fast but still just as good.

The only difference this time is that the iPhone Dev Team is advising against upgrading to firmware 2.0.1 if you want to unlock the iPhone with a future Pwnage Tool version.

Or what you could do is upgrade, jailbreak and unlock with a SIM unlocking card which we showed you earlier this week. If those SIM hacks work that is…

Did you jailbreak your iPhone 3G already? You can do that with iPhone Dev Team’s tools for Macs and Windows. Surely you’d like to unlock it while we’re at it right? You can wait for the Team to develop their unlocking tool, or you can order this useful SIM Unlock Card starting with August 20th. The second version will cost you $34.99. I did say order right?

The SIM unlock is made of a thin piece of FPS and a microcontroller which goes between your carrier’s SIM and the iPhone’s SIM socket. Not only will it work with your iPhone but it should fit any other phone out there. As it’s got Gold Immersion, it will make perfect contact with the SIM and the socket at all times.

After getting it you can simply place it between your favorite carrier (not the one selling the iPhone) and the socket and you will be able to use it to like you would regularly do. It all sounds good, almost too good to be true. If this works, you’d be spending the best $35 you’ve ever spent on mobile gadgets. The main advantage is that you can reuse it as many times on any mobile without damaging the phone or wasting the warranty. The only damage you’ll make is a tiny hole in your carrier SIM (the plastic part) and off you go.

Waiting to see if it turns out fine. Drop a line in case when you get to test one of these babies!

The iPhone Dev Team managed to release two iPhone Pwnage Tools so far, one for Macs and one for Windows. The Pwnage Tool 2.0 for Macs had a couple of bugs which were fixed in an immediate follow up release of the Pwnage Tool 2.0.1.
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We’ve seen so far the amazing work of iPhone Dev Team who were able to break the iPhone out. Application freedom comes after jailbreaking the iPhone but unlocking isn’t just available yet. The Pwnage Tool was released twice already. The 2.0 version was very soon corrected by the 2.0.1 version.

Just in case you don’t own a Mac, there a Windows Pwnage Tool version for the 3G iPhone, iPhone and iPhone Touch. The Windows version will also jailbreak any of the iPhones or the iPod touch, but it won’t unlock the 3G iPhone yet.

via Giz

It was only a week ago that we were discussing the iPhone Dev Team and their remarkable ability to unlock and jailbreak iPhones and the 3G iPhone in particular.
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We’re searching here and there for unlocked 3G iPhones options for you, while we are waiting for the Pwnage Tool 2.0 from iPhone Dev Team to be completed. Everyone is surprised how fast they managed to develop the software for unlocking and jailbreaking the new iPhone. Well bad news everyone. It appears there are some problems with the whole unlocking thing.
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Like everyone else you probably want an unlocked, possible jailbroken 3G iPhone don’t you? And for the subsidized price right? Well you can either wait for iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage Tool 2.0 to be released to manually hack your iPhone or you can head to France and order a prepaid 3G iPhone. Sure the price isn’t that great but at least you won’t be tied to a 2 year agreement.
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I was telling you yesterday how the iPhone Dev Team managed to unlock and jailbreak the 3G iPhone already. They are preparing their Pwnage Tool 2.0 which will have support for Firmware 2.0.

It’s not available yet and it won’t be released over this weekend, but in the mean time you can enjoy the video above. Next step should be trying to get out of that plan you have already purchased. No matter where you find yourself at this time.

Again, Apple, what are you going to do?

It’s been confirmed that the iPhone firmware version 1.1.3 could bring your bricked iPhones back to life! Seems like Apple’s giving a new lease on people’s dead iPhones.

Apple: Come, sons and daughters. Walk the path to salvation and sin no more!

To find out how you can resurrect your dead iPhone, check out how the Gizmodo team did it.

But of course, we all knew people would figure out how to jailbreak the 1.1.3 firmware. The method, however, is reportedly quite complex that a public release has been held off, at least for now. To prove that the claim is true though, a video of a jailbroken iPod Touch using 1.1.3 has been posted on YouTube which we’ve embedded below. According to the people behind the jailbreak, 1.1.3 is given the codename “LittleBear.” How cute. Wonder if it was Steve who thought of it.

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