The iPhone Dev-Team has issued an update to the UltraSn0w unlock which fixes the disappearing carrier name issue. 

UltraSn0w .92 was posted by MuscleNerd and uses an extra 10 lines of code to fix the carrier name. It is available on the normal repo666.ultrasn0w.com Cydia repository. 

Remember to use UltraSn0w you must be on the 04.26.08 baseband. 

The carrier fix has been confirmed for:

USA, Thailand, Austria, Trinidad, Germany, China, Kuwait, Serbia, Poland, France, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Ireland, UK, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, Malaysia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Bahamas, Jamaica, India, Israel, Belgium, Canada, Portugal.

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Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.1 BETA 3 to developers and it includes several new features. 

Copy/Paste Video
You are now able to copy and paste video into your emails. 
It seems there is a file size limit of 15MB. 

Tethering Usage
You can now see the amount of data usage while tethered separate from the cellular network data used. 

Baseband Update
The baseband has reportedly been updated to 5.11.04 

API Changes
Changes introduced to UIKit (UIImagePickerController and UIVideoEditorController) and also to Audio Toolbox (AudioConverter, AudioSerives and ExternalAudioFile) 

123 Button
The ‘123′ button has been changed to ‘_123′ 

(via iClarified.com)

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TheiPhoneBlog.com has complied a list of changes discovered in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1 developer seed.

Currently known changes:
- Non-destructive video editing now gives you the option to trim your clip then “Save as copy…” rather then replacing the original clip.
- Voice Control now works over Bluetooth
- iPhone vibrates when moving icons
- Updated AT&T profile to 4.2
- Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01
- Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
- APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

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We have not heard anything from George Hotz for some time, but when he does chime in it’s usually of some significance.. He has posted some news for iPhone 3G owners who have bootlader 5.8 and modem firmware 02.30 and can’t run yellowsn0w to unlock the device.

In bootloader 5.8 on the 3G, the loader signature validator is broken. Someone botched an if statement checking the location and length of the loader in the cert. Because of this, you can pass the run cert for the firmware you currently have on the phone instead of the loader cert, and send whatever you want as a loader.

Here is a bspatch file to be applied to ICE2_02.28.00.fls allowing downgrades from 2.30.03 using BBUpdaterExtreme. By replacing the patched cert with your current run cert, you can downgrade from any other version.

This will really help people who have updated their iPhone 3G to 2.2.1 from 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2. Unfortunately this will not help those with 5.9 bootloader which makes up the majority of new iPhone 3G purchased in the last couple months.

I have  not been able to find much info on this and I am not willing to sacrifice my 3G by updating to test. But as I get more info I will post, there are not real tutorials for this and must be run from terminal on the iPhone with all the required files. For anyone that is brave enough to try, let us know your outcome.

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The iPhone 3G has been PWNED

The iPhone Dev Team have been working on a software unlock for the iPhone 3G since it was available. Like the original iPhone software unlock, it took months to crack the baseband, but it looks like the iPhone Dev Team have done it once again. Read more…

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Tuan Anh Do shows off an unlocked iPhone 3G at one of his cell phone repair shops in Hanoi. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CBS Interactive)

Tuan Anh aka TA_Mobile, Vietnamese cell shop owner and iPhone hacker, has maanged to unlock the iPhone 3G via a crazy hardware hack that involved removing the motherboard from the iPhone 3G, removing the BaseBand Chip (SGOLD) and re-flashing it and then re-fitting it to the motherboard.

TA_Mobile if you remember was the first to extract the 5.8 bootloader form the iPhone 3G via a hardware method, and has now once again proven his hardware skills. This unlocking method is really not for the faint of heart and probably no one but the TA_Mobile shops will be preforming this hack for sometime. It will set you back $80 USD, not much for most of us, but a small fortune for those in Vietnam.

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Persistent Nucleus Tasks from iphonedev on Vimeo.

In a post on their blog the iPhone Dev-Team has announced they are one step closer to a 3G unlock and now have a clear path to follow.

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