The iPhone Dev-Team is one of the most talented and well respected hacker groups currently around. You have scores of individuals with iPhones that are mercilessly shackled who want true honest to goodness freedom for their property. Why spend several hundred dollars on a device that is neutered? That’s what the Dev-Team is here for. However, after an iPhone freedom fighter, George Holtz, became unhappy with how the Dev-Teams progress was going in regards to waiting until after the 3.1 iPhone update to release an iPhone 3GS lock, ‘ol Gerogy boy took matters into his own hands and released purple sn0w. But he didn’t just stop there, he made the claim that purple sn0w was better than any of Dev-Team’s offerings — not a small claim at all seeing as how the Dev-Team is somewhat famous around these techie parts. The Dev-Team has finally taken the stand to tell their story…
While Apple will always be playing a game of catch-up against the ever talented and relentless hacking community, the hacking community meanwhile enjoys the taste of the fresh air and leg room out front. The latest news in iPhone hackery comes by way of news that in addition to iPhone OS 3.0 already being open to jailbreaking, soon to be 3.0 users will also be able to unlock their old new baby. Tonight, Tuesday evening, the Dev Team will broadcast a live demo of the yellowsn0w process in action. Looks like I’ll be upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 sooner than I thought… Who’s ready to get liberated?
Source: Gizmodo, The Mod Shop, DevTeamBlog
- January 28, 2009 12:11 pm
If you have unlocked your precious iPhone 3G and been looking to upgrade to 2.2.1…DON’T! Yellow Sn0w, the unlocking software that unshackles the iPhone 3G gets reshackled in Apple’s latest update. However, jailbreakers can take a breather as jailbreaking is not harmed. So if tricking out the theme or using PDA net is your thing, don’t worry, you’re still in business. Unlockers will want to hold off until the Dev Team has a chance to release an update to yellow sn0w before upgrading. You’ve been warned!
Source: iPhone Alley
The iPhone Dev Team has official released yellowsn0w on cydia and will be available very soon if not already once they repository owner fixes a small permissions error. One other nice tidbit is that previous reports from the Dev Team stated that ONLY OS’s with older basebands would would (pre 2.2). However, in a cryptic teaser post last night followed by another more earthly post they revealed that they have overcame the limitation in the new baseband of 2.2 and if fact, 2.2 is required now for the unlock! So, to everyone that was bummed about not being able to use 2.2 should feel a little bit better.
