Dev-Team responds to purple sn0w claims

Dev-Team responds to purple sn0w claims

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...

Power to the people – Dev Team announces OS 3.0 software unlock ready

Power to the people – Dev Team announces OS 3.0 software unlock ready

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...

Confirmed: iPhone firmware 2.2.1 breaks yellow sn0w!

Confirmed: iPhone firmware 2.2.1 breaks yellow sn0w!

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...

iPhone 3g software unlock now available!

iPhone 3g software unlock now available!

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...