Initial reports of iPhone Dev Team’s yellowst0ne unlock software for the iPhone 3G said that the application will arrive on New Year’s Eve. Well it looks like things have changed in the mean time. Dev Team member MuscleNerd said he will be using Qik on a first generation iPhone to stream the first official live presentation of an iPhone 3G to be unlocked with yellowst0ne. The live demo was scheduled for today at 3:00PM EST and it was announced on MuscleNerd’s Twitter account. And he did stream it!

In under 4 minutes MuscleNerd showed us live how easy is to unlock the iPhone 3G. He has just switched the AT&T SIM with one from T-Mobile, he ran yellowst0ne, and everything else is history. It is all right there in the video above! The application is arriving on New Year’s Eve day so get your AT&T contract ready! You will be canceling it soon!

via Qik

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…

So many people are waiting for the second generation iPhone. We have had so many rumors about what it will do, how it will look like, and where it will be released first.
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On October 24th Apple decided to limit iPhone purchases to two per person. This should not confuse customers into thinking that this is a per transaction rule. It is per customer, period. Apple has gone as far as to check consumer history and refuse cash payments in order to maintain this policy. Apple is currently involved in a vicious struggle with the independent cell phone merchants who are unlocking iPhones, which would then be compatible with any wireless provider and not only AT&T. It is estimated that Apple earns $432 for each AT&T iPhone activation, so this harsh stance does contain some logic. Apple also wishes to maintain control of quantity as we approach the holiday season. There have also been reports that unlocking an iPhone with wireless carriers other then AT&T have led to faulty and bugged program that tarnish the iPhone experience.