Ultrasn0w: iPhone 3G with OS 3.0 Unlock on June 19

Ultrasn0w: iPhone 3G with OS 3.0 Unlock on June 19

Techtree News Staff, Jun 17, 2009 1155 hrs IST

Will it be jailbroken soon?

The cat and mouse game will enter its next round as Apple will release iPhone 3.0 firmware later today. As usual, the iPhone-Dev team has been working ahead of time for iPhone 3G unlock methods. On Tuesday evening, MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone-Dev, showed up live demo of carrier unlock working on the official iPhone 3.0 firmware. The new method of carrier unlock for iPhone 3G is code named ultrasn0w by iPhone-Dev team.

The basic aim of this unlock is to enable the use of iPhone 3G with any carrier and not restricting it to be locked to a single carrier. Back in December, the iPhone-Dev team showed its first version of iPhone 3G unlock through a method called yellowsn0w. Ultrasn0w is the new version of Yellowsn0w for the iPhone 3.0 firmware.

View the ultrasn0w demo to unlock iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 firmware. Skip ahead to two minutes.

The iPhone-dev team wants to play safe and will launch ultrasn0w on June 19. Reason being that Apple might fix the hole exploited by the iPhone-Dev team. The other tools like PwnageTool and QuickPwn are under testing to work fine with iTunes 8.2 verison. The team didn't specify when the jailbreak for iPhone 3.0 firmware based devices would be rolled out.

MuscleNerd updated through his Twitter account that:

It's fine to install 3.0 now if you don't need to unlock til Friday. When you jailbreak make sure it's from our links tho to avoid hassles.

About the new iPhone 3G S, the iPhone-Dev team stated that it runs the similar version of software. But the iPhone-Dev team prefers to stay mum on whether the iPhone 3G S will be jailbroken or not.