Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 20 July 2008 08:31
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It’s finally here, the PwnageTool 2.0 to unlock and jailbreak the
iPhone 2G, jailbreak only at this stage the iPhone 3G and jailbreak the
iPod Touch – all running the shiny new iPhone OS 2.0!
It’s taken 9 days since the launch of the iPhone
3G and the iPhone OS 2.0 for the iPhone Dev Team to iron out the bugs
and get its PwnageTool 2.0 out the door.
Although PwnageTool 2.0 can’t as yet unlock the iPhone 3G’s baseband,
with the iPhone Dev Team saying in previous statements that it has made
some progress on an unlock and would continue work on it, given the
wide availability of the iPhone 3G through numerous carriers worldwide,
an unlock for the 3G model is a lower priority at this point in time
anyway.
The biggest priority for many was to unlock and jailbreak the iPhone 2G
running the new iPhone OS 2.0. This would allow original iPhone users
running 1.1.4 or older firmware to safely upgrade to the new OS 2.0 for
all the App Store goodness, while also being able to use whatever GSM
SIM card they want, as is the case today on pre 2.0 firmware.
Although iPhone OS 2.0 was unlocked and jailbroken before the iPhone OS
2.0 was even officially available, squishing all the bugs, testing
different scenarios and firmware versions, testing App Store programs
running alongside unauthorised third party apps and more has taken some
time: 9 days.
But 9 days is hardly a long time, even though many commenters at the
iPhone Dev Team blog made it seem like a wait of decades through
constant, endless whining, pleading and begging.
It made no difference to the Dev Team, they took their time to ensure
the unlock tool worked properly and this should keep most people happy,
although already some commenters at the Dev Team blog have reported
issues.
The iPhone Dev Team says that it will issue a more formal announcement
soon, but the download location and a mirror is available, and one
website has already published instructions on what to do.
For all the details on what the iPhone Dev Team said, where you can get
the download from, the instructions and when a Windows version will
appear, please read on to page 2.
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