iPhone 3G Software Unlock coming after Chtistmas - Sorry reseller and profit unlockers

By Aaron Besson at 15 December, 2008, 12:11 pm

If you frequent the iPhone Dev Team Blog, then this is no new news to you, but of you are everyone else, you will regoice with the news posted by MuscleNerd (a Dev Team member) that they have made significant progress and are looking to release a software unlock for the iPhone 3G some time after Christmas.

SWEET!

The news came in the comments of their blog and read as follows:

User: haven’t seen a funday for about 2 weeks~~are you prepareing for a “big” update?

MuscleNerd: Yep:)… Right now for 02.11.07 we have some untested ideas. Ideally we’d have something solid by the end of next week, but if we don’t then it would be a staged release, with 01.45.00 first out of the gate… Target date is a few days after Christmas … I’m going to try doing a live qik broadcast from my iphone before then…I have qik configured to announce it via my twitter when it starts.

I made a request via Twitter to Muscle Nerd to ask him a few questions about the iPhone 3G unlock, no details, but I think it would be nice to be able to poke and prod around the mind of one of the Dev’s.

The iPhone 3G unlock will only work on those with iPhone Modem firmware (baseband) 01.45.00, other newer baseband unlocks will eb released when they are ready. (we told you not to update unless via pwnage)

The delay raises some questions though, as someone who sold and unlocked iPhone’s in the past, I and others truly believe that this delay is to stop iPhone resellers and unlockers from making a gazillion dollars off an iPhone 3G unlock at this time of year. The new PWNAGE Tool would be sold and services of unlocking the 3G and selling unlocked 3G would make allot of people allot of money with the Dev Team doing all of the hard work. And as in the past they frown upon this, and rightfully so. I personally have stopped charging for unlocking iPhones (and have really stopped offering this service completely) as it is soooooo easy now (even my mom can do it), so I and hopefully others will make as many free and easy tutorials for the users to update via PWNAGE and unlock their 3G’s themselves.

Cheers and Happy Holidays!!

[via iPhoneDevBlog]

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iphones December 30, 2008

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