iPhone 3G unlock “yellowsn0w” coming Dec 31, 2008!

By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 16:51

Market

The iPhone Dev Team has done it, promising to release an iPhone 3G unlock “New Year’s Eve 2008”, for iPhone 3Gs with baseband 2.11.07 or earlier, throwing a few snowballs of yellow snow Apple’s way!

The long awaited iPhone 3G unlock is now two weeks away, with the iPhone Dev Team claiming to have completed the work needed to break through Apple’s restrictions, and merely packaging everything up into a “user-friendly applications with the simplicity you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter”.

Proclaiming that “'Tis the Season to be Jolly!”, the iPhone Dev Team’s announcement is like an early Christmas present that you can claim days after the event, and as long as no last minute bugs needs squishing, will be delivered to users in 2008, 6 months after the iPhone 3G was first unleashed unto the world.

The Dev Team notes that iPhone 3G baseband 2.11.07 or earlier is required, and that they did warn users NOT to update with Apple’s official updates so as to ensure the initial 3G unlock would work.

I suppose now that the Dev Team has completed its first 3G unlock, it will work next year to unlock newer basebands – or perhaps find a way to downgrade the newer basebands to the older ones. Yellowsn0w, yellowsnow... iPhone 3G owners waiting for the unlock will be yelling with joy.

Thus, the cat and mouse game between Apple and the hackers continues, with the hackers winning yet again!

They also note that a jailbroken 3G iPhone is required, but if you’ve been waiting for this unlock, then that surely won’t be a problem.

Before we get on to the DFU issues and Mac OS X 10.5.6, and progress with the iPod Touch 2G update, the Dev Team also notes: “Over the Christmas break some of our members will be talking at the Chaos Computer Club’s 25C3 Congress.

“This talk will be a juicy technical talk relating to iPhone platform and our previous exploits. You can see more information about the talk “Hacking the iPhone”. There is even a super-cool TeamPwnapple T-Shirt ;-)”

The Dev Team also updates users on the new DFU mode problems with the latest Mac OS X 10.5.6 system update, and provides a possible solution.

More details on page 2, please read on!