iPhone 3G Pwnage tool ready, minus unlocking

by Julian Prokaza
on Fri 18 Jul 2008 Comment

Pwnage

So, it took a mere five days for the iPhone 3G to be jailbroken and now the folks at iPhone Dev have released an iPhone 3G-friendly version of their 'Pwnage' software. The good news is it will jailbreak both iPhone 3G and 1st Gen iPhones running the new 2.0 firmware, allowing the installation of third party software not available via the iTunes App Store – and unlock 1st gen handsets for use with any SIM.

The bad news is it won't yet unlock iPhone 3Gs, so you're stuck with O2 for the time being. Given that all current 3G handsets are tethered to an O2 contract for 18 months anyway, that's not such a big issue, but it is a pain if you like to use SIM cards for local networks when you're abroad.

Hopefully the unlock will be available by the time pre-pay models hit the shops – finally giving Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile customers a chance to get in on the iPhone 3G action without moving to O2.

The iPhone Dev team says: "We’ve made some progress on the baseband unlock of the 3G device, but at this point PwnageTool will not support 3G unlocking or BootNeuter on the 3G device... As soon as we fix this up and test a bit more we’ll be ready for release, we’ll get back to you with a release schedule soon."

[ iPhone Dev via Gizmodo]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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