GeoHot speaks about the challenges of unlocking iPhone 3G

GeoHot seems to have caught the bug again so to speak. He has recently taken on the challenge to unlock the iPhone 3G, and  he is finding out that the new Infineon Chip is not going to make is easy. The first gen iPhone was a challenge, but this new 3G iPhone hardware is going [...]

GeoHotz speaks on iPhone 3G unlocking - Is it worth it?

Is it really worth it?
I have often asked myself, and others that question. Would the effort (and resources) needed for an unlock for the iPhone 3G really be worth it?
How many of us are really going to be able to get our hands on the iPhone 3G without a contract?
I know I am not getting [...]

WinPWN Beta released and tutorial

cmw has been hard at work porting PWNED from the dev team to the PC, it’s called WinPWN, more info can be found on the winpwn website, but here is the public release note:
This is winpwn-0.99.1.8BETA. I have disabled 2.0+ support since it’s still buggy. Hopefully with people beta testing i will get allthe bugs [...]

How to add custom Startup and Restore images to your iPhone with PWNED

Once again the guys over at iClarified have put together a great tutorial, this time for using PWNED to load custom Boot and Restore images on your iPhone. NOTE***: There are stringent requirements for these files. They must be 24bit PNGs, 100KB or less, have an alpha layer, RGB or Greyscale, and 320×480 or less [...]

PWNED 1.1 update - iPhone Unlocking Tool from the Dev Team

Greetings! The Dev’s have been working hard at it again and as promised the update is out for the new beloved PWNED that chock full of great updates and new features and will unlock your precious iPhone:
Changes and fixes:-

EDGE settings fix for iPhone 1.1.4 firmware

iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0 5A240d support

New Features

Added custom package support

Added custom [...]

PWNED iPhone firmware cutomizing/unlocking utility

All iHail the Dev Team, for they have cometh to free the iPhone. Wow, I awoke this morning to my lil pitbull Layla making noise which is very uncommon, stumbled into the office to see that PWNED had been released, I looked at her and then realized that’s what all the noise was about.
Currently only [...]

iLiberty+ and iLibertyx - Ultimate Unlock, Jailbreak, Activate iPhone Utility

It’s iPlus on steroids with a fantastic GUI and incremental payloads!
- Aviegas
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the above video courtesy Gman and from appledailytimes.com
The new iLiberty+ and iLibertx from George Zhu and Aviegas and others not only does the cleanest jailbreak, activation and unlock out there, it also comes with several payloads and the ability to easily add more. (Here’s [...]

iLiberty for the iPhone released by George

Who’s George? Well he is not George Hotz (GeoHotz) the famous wonder kid who was the first to hardware unlock the iPhone and later brought the first software unlocks for the new 4.6 Bootloaders. NO, this is George Zhu aka George Zjlotto, a brilliant programmer and blogger, that has been solving and reworking apps and [...]