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New Years Day Pwnade: iPhone 3G Unlock

“Diving into yellowsn0w”

The DevTeam unlocks the iPhone 3G to work on any carrier.

Meanwhile, on an apple-shaped island in the remote recesses of an uncharted, waterfront villa, Steve Jobs takes time away from his multitude of disease-curing creations to plot his latest reprise in response.

Upon hearing the news over their invasive, overpriced and over-bundled satellite, internet, tv and phone monitoring services, AT&T executives unceremoniously drop a load of coal down their neatly-pressed, flat-front, business trousers.

The cat and mouse game ensues into the new year.

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Excerpt from DevTeam:

3G Unlock

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

* The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
* This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
* You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
* The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
* Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.
* We’ll stream a live demo of the unlock before Christmas (see the update at the end of this post)