The iPhone Dev Team has got us excited (and Apple worried) by announcing they have a fully-working software carrier unlock ready for the 3.0 firmware ahead of its official release. On Tuesday evening they will do a live demo of the new yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware, just before the big Apple [...]

The iPhone OS 3.0 beta has already been jailbroken. Quickpwn for Beta 3.0 is out for all devices except the iPod Touch 2G. The Dev Team has some words of warning about this jailbreak – in terms of future ability to unlock, mainly because of a big caveat: “That’s because QuickPwn, by its very nature, [...]

Ripdev’s InstallerApp makes installing third-party jailbreak applications on your iPhone slightly easier, by eliminating the need to jailbreak your iPhone at all. You just need to pay $7 for the privilege, which isn’t free (jailbreaking is free). The process works by installing an app onto your iPhone that’s not quite jailbreaking, but is enough to [...]

Gizmodo has an interesting article about many of the iPhone features that are introduced in the 3.0 update, and how you can get many of them right now via jailbreaking and Cydia. Many of the features mentioned in the update have been available there for awhile now, albeit not in easy to use form. This [...]

There are a lot of very good reasons why Apple doesn’t let you to skin the iPhone’s UI (just glance at most BlackBerry or WinMo themes). But then there’s this awesome retro Megaman theme, which is every 8-bit Capcom lover’s dream come to life. Yes, most of the themes populating the App Store would probably [...]

The iPhone Dev-Team hasn’t wasted anytime in declaring the iPhone 3.0 operating system “jailbreakable.” Just hours after Apple unveiled the latest iPhone OS, a short notice appeared on the Dev Team blog that says jailbroken iPhones will not be left out of the 3.0 party. However, the team warns those users who have the software-based [...]

Ever wanted to jailbreak your iPhone, but wanted a complete, no-nonsense step by step guide about how to do so, along with installing jailbroken apps too? Gizmodo just published such an article this weekend, and it’s a fairly comprehensive guide about the world of jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod Touch. Why would you want to [...]

There’s a whole internet subculture of people who put old software onto new, inappropriate hardware all the time. They’re put the Commodore 64 on modern Pentiums, and now what do they have? System 7 on an iPhone, obviously. The MacOS iPhone project has finally managed to “port” the OS to the phone, albeit a version [...]

The Dev Team just released the Pwnage app, which jailbreaks 2.2.1 iPhones on Macs. If you’re ever going to SIM unlock your phone in the future (use it on another network), use this, not QuickPwn. For people with 10.5.6 Macs, you’re going to have to re-enable DFU mode in order to run Jailbreak. The Dev [...]

The 2nd generation iPod Touch proved very tricky to break, but the Dev Team has made the first big step toward a full-on jailbreak for the iPhone’s companion device, which has proven even more popular in some ways than the iPhone. Many have been waiting for the Dev Team to break the device, and it [...]