Ring in the New Year with an unlocked iPhone 3G courtesy of the iPhone Dev Team
The iPhone Dev team today announced on its shiny new blog that the iPhone 3G unlocking project, codenamed yellowsn0w, has been successful. iPhone 3G owners, you are now free to unlock your iPhone! Patience is a virtue as you will have to wait until New Years Eve for the Dev Team to wrap the unlocking tools and procedure into a nice easy package and release it for your unlocking pleasure. The unlocking method is available only to jailbroken iPhone 3Gs and to those iPhone 3Gs that are running baseband 2.11.07 or earlier. The Dev Team’s post on upgrading to firmware 2.2 contains detailed instructions on how to upgrade and keep your unlocking ability intact. Hopefully, you followed those instructions closely. Last but not least, the iPhone Dev team announced that it is not working on jailbreaking the IPod Touch 2G at this point in time. Others are currently exploring the possibility but the Dev Team has put that project aside for the time being. Happy New Years and Happy Unlocking!
well well, guess im gettin a new ip hone for christmas!
so can this work on non 3G sim cards/phone plans?
how do i get a free I phone for christmas too?
The Iphone dev team named their unlocking project “yellowsn0w”?
I’m guessing “WinterPee” was taken then.
Those guys would wait til new years eve to release because that is the only kind of action those dorks will see at midnight!
ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These guys have done something that thousands of people have been waiting for.
What have you done with 2008?
This is good for people that travel, but those that stay in the U.S. I don’t see how this is a really big deal. 3g wont work on any other network, T-Mobile no longer offers “cheap” unlimited data. I can see if Sprint or Verizon were HSPA carriers but this is only good for international travelers for cheap roaming rates.
Does this mean you could use an Iphone on Verizon’s CDMA system? Me thinks not . .
T-Mobile’s data price for pda’s hasnt gone up? its just bundled with messaging now,
before:
internet 20
messaging 5 or 15
now
int and 400 msg 25
int and unl msg 35.
only sidekick data prices went up.
irregardless of how useful this is. the mere fact that you can have complete control of your phone now is what matters.
who cares if you don’t go overseas, if nothing else unclocking adds resale value to your phone
now is this permanent or is it software? if i upgraded to 2.3 say would the unlock go away??
I have seen unlocked Iphones for verizon you can do it with software I scene video on youtube dude unlocked with software so many this software can do it 2? He did and then called 611 it connected to vzw. My friend was gonna sell me one unlocked vzw but he sold it before I could get the money up I tested and it rocked. I am waiting for metropcs to come to nyc cause they have prepay no contract cdma 3g network with unlimited everything for $60.00 a month and then I am gonna get it unlocked for cdma
Chris, when you say about the ‘metropcs’ can u be more specific about it? I will be interested also to adquire that. Is that an IPhone?