Geohot has released his BlackSn0w unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

“blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.”

You can find instructions on how to use blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone here: Windows, Mac.

If you have already jailbroken using blackra1n, run the application again. You will see Icy replaced by an option “ra1n”. Install this to upgrade your blackra1n application. Run the blackra1n application again. This time you will see “sn0w”. Install sn0w to unlock your device.

(via iClarified.com)

Here’s what the iPhone Dev Team had to say concerning BlackSn0w

iPhone 3G/3GS owners who found themselves stuck with version 05.11 of the baseband (either by accident or because they bought it that way) are now in luck!  geohot was able to turn the already-public at+xemn crash into an injection vector, which can be used to inject his version of the unlock.  The blacksn0w unlock is available for free via Cydia by adding the repository http://blackra1n.com in the Manage->Sources panel.  Congratulations, geohot!

Those of you who are already unlocked at 3.1.2 because you kept your 04.26 baseband now have an extra cushion of comfort, and more choices: ultrasn0w, purplesn0w, and now blacksn0w (and of course the original yellowsn0w too if you’re still back at FW 2.x).   Whether or not you choose to update your baseband solely to use the new unlock is a personal choice, but so far there are no advantages to doing so (and remember you can’t come back to 04.26 after you’ve gone to 05.11).

As with all the unlocks, it will probably very soon be re-sold through scam sites that charge you money for what is offered to the community for free.  Please stay vigilant for these scam sites and steer your friends away from them.

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Released today via Cydia. Though I’ve tried it personally with no results. So far its pretty successful at bringing the MMS interface to a 2G iPhone in the Messages & Photos apps. Maybe its a local issue…

Update
After playing around with it a little more & some luck I was able to get it to work! For those wanting to have MMS on their iPhone (2G) (even though Apple said it would not be possible) these are the (bmobile (Trinidad & Tobago)) settings:

-APN: mms
-MMSC: http://192.168.210.104/mmrelay.app
-MMS Proxy: 192.168.210.104:8080

I’d like to thank my friend Zane for initially telling me about this being available in Cydia as well providing me with those settings, which took a little tinkering to get working properly. Also Kevon, who commeneted on this subject.

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Sleepers.net has announced Kryptes, an alternative package handler to Cydia for jailbroken iPhones.

Kryptes is a new, lightweight, package handler that was designed with the end user in mind. We are very excited to announce its release and hope the community appreciates all the hard work that we have put into this. We do understand that there are going to be several questions the Community might have for us, so we will try to answer most of them in this post.

Q: Are you trying to compete with Cydia and Installer?
A: No, we have tried to reach out to both of the developers for each one of these handlers several times. We have been continually shot down when we asked if we could become a default repository/source. IT was as if we did not exist, when we feel we have given much to the community.

Q: So why did you produce a Application, when there are already 2 prominent applications that exist that are similiar to Kryptes?
A: We have over 600 developers in our repository, we felt to give them the most exposure in the Community we were left with no choice, but to build our own Package Handler. If we would have been accepted as a default repository with the other Package Handlers the build of Kryptes would not have happened.

You can install Kryptes by adding the Sleepers.net repo to Cydia and install the “A Alternative to Cydia and Installer” package. We are not aware of how safe or stable this application is.

(via iClarified.com)

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RiP Dev has released version 1.2 of their Icy Installer application for iPhone and iPod touch.

What’s new? 
* Ability to hide categories you don’t need. 
* Category names are now localizable. 
* Icy will now auto-refresh sources if it is on Wi-Fi and didn’t refresh in past hour. 
* Various GUI fixes in regard to Installed/Updates section. 
* Fixed a script issue causing some package not to be installed. 
* Add email maintainer button for the console error log sheet to quickly report on errors. 
* Fixed sources refresh so stalled repositories won’t affect others. 
* Added Polish localization. 
* Added Chinese localizations. 
* Other fixes.

You can install the Icy Installer from Cydia by adding the http://apt.ripdev.com repository.

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