Some good news coming from the iphone-dev team as of late, and before you get super excited they still have not managed to get the iPhone 3G unlocked, but that aside things are looking good in regards to the upcoming firmware 2.2.
According to the dev team, the first beta of firmware 2.2 is still “vulnerable to pwnage and quickpwn.” The only device that they are not currently able to offer a jailbreak for is the 2nd gen iPod Touch, but hopefully that will soon change.
Additionally it looks like we can also expect the 2nd beta of firmware 2.2 to come sometime around the 30th of November as that is when the current beta is set to expire.
Finally, in regards to the iPhone 3G unlock, the dev team stated that they are “making slow advances” and that compared with the timeline for the original iPhone this is still a new challenge. Hopefully they can reach that stage sooner than later, but either way their hard work has been very appreciated, I love my jailbroken iPhone and hate the thought of going back and having to lose some of my favorite apps.
Zibri has seemingly made a return to the jailbreaking scene, but its not the news that many would have hoped for. It has been a while since we last heard, but one of the last mentions was stating that ZiPhone would not be made available for the iPhone 2.0 software.
Honestly I am not really sure what to make of his latest post, it almost seems he is a little bitter. Nonetheless he did mention that he is “testing” a new version of ZiPhone and it “works pretty well” but was quick to mention that it was not ready for a public release. Of course I am not sure we will ever see a public release at this point, nothing was promised or even stated other than he hopes that it will be ready “someday.”
ZiPhone used to be a good option for jailbreaking and unlocking, but with the good work that the iPhone Dev Team has already set forward with both Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn as well as a few other available options I am not sure another addition is even needed. Personally I have found my tool of choice and it would take a special addition to make me switch away for future jailbreaks.
But taking this a little further, and the reasoning behind my earlier comment about Zibri being bitter is that he also hinted that jailbreaking has become more about piracy and that makes me wonder just what he is really thinking.
“Modding the iPhone at moment seems just a hypocritical synonym for “getting apps for free from appstore” and I’m not fine with that.”
Personally I cannot disagree more with that statement, jailbreaking is not about getting something for free, its about using your iPhone in ways that you can that Apple will not allow. Sure there were a few early instances where legal apps were cracked and made available, but for the most part the jailbroken apps are available because Apple will not allow them in the App Store.
As a proponent of jailbreaking, this latest message from the unofficial iPhone DevTeam seems worthy of passing on. They are warning of some fake or unofficial websites related to the QuickPwn name, of course this is not a surprise because after all this is the Internet and there are bound to be some less than desirable people around. However, the message comes with a warning to be careful and avoid such sites.
“We would just like to point out that that there are lots of fake sites using the QuickPwn name, these muppets don’t know anything special, and they don’t have anything unique. They are vultures that sit on the domain names and plagiarize content and information in the hope that you donate to them, or click the google ads.”
One thing is not all that clear though, although the DevTeam is offering the warning they have not made any specific mention of anything harmful coming from them, at least yet. They do point out that the official site blog.iphone-dev will never have ads and they will never ask for donations. So based on that it seems they are more worried about people paying for something they could get for free.
Also important to keep in mind is that an tricks”>unlock for the iPhone 3G is not currently available, so make sure you don’t find a site that is promising that. Overall I would just say that if the jailbreaking tool is not coming from the DevTeam, then you may want to give it a second thought.
It comes with little surprise that Steve Wozniak is sporting a jailbroken iPhone, after all how can we forget the now classic video of Wozniak jailbreaking Kathy Griffin’s 1.1.1 iPhone. That of course was done in the ‘good old days’ using the once simple process found at jailbreakme.com.
Of course, its still nice to see some photographic evidence supporting it. The latest photo comes courtesy of the unofficial iPhone DevTeam’s website and shows Wozniak proudly showing off his “pwned” iPhone complete with the cartoon Steve image on the display.
As someone who is also in full support of jailbreaking and currently using a pwned iPhone 3G, I cannot help but wonder what jailbroken apps he uses.
