Thanks to the hard work and dedication from the Dev-Team, the iPhone 3G’s software unlock solution is near completion and quite stable. I have been following forum posts from hackintosh, modmyi, and howardforums and the consensus is pretty clear it works for 95% of the people around the world using different types of sims and carriers.

Before yellowsn0w, I used the “Virgin-Sim” sim proxy, and it worked quite well with T-mobile USA. When yellowsn0w was released on New Years Eve, I disregarded reading any forums and continued to restore my iphone to 2.2 (I was at 2.1) and install yellowsn0w. To my disappointment, it was a pain to get working (multiple reboots, airplane mode toggling, and sim removal and reinsertion).

This news is a few days old, but there is an important message in it so I thought I would post something on it anyway. The dev team is planning to release their 3g unlock on New Years Even 2008. So if you are interested in unlocking your 3g, you must make sure you do [...]

Planetbeing wrote an outstanding post on the simularities and differences on pwnage, quickpwn, and ziphone. It is a very interesting read. The original post was here but you can read it here as well (posted with permission). Similarities Jailbreak Both utilities jailbreak. Payload medium Primary jailbreak payload is placed into iPhone memory for both jailbreaks [...]

Pumpkin from the iPhone Dev Team posted his thoughts. I found it interesting and posted it here for you all to read. It does a nice job explaining the situation with Zibri as well as how pwnage and iPhone 2.0 hacks work. Enjoy. The following opinions are mine, and not those of the DevTeam as [...]