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UPDATE: Product Page added below. The small FAQ on the page says “the handset will be available at Airtel Authorised Stores very soon” and will mostly be bundled with a 3G plan.
While most countries are waiting for the updated version of iPhone, Indians will officially be getting the iPhone 3GS soon. Airtel, India’s biggest [...]

 
Take this with a pinch of salt but if couple of BGR sources are to be believed, Apple and AT&T might have something interesting for the consumers this Christmas. According to them, the $99 iPhone 3G will be replaced with an iPhone 3GS bearing the same 8GB capacity. The reasoning sounds a bit way off [...]

 
Unlock for iPhone 3G/3GS users on baseband 05.11.07 was impossible until now but as promised, Geohot has released Blacksn0w that unlocks iPhones running on OS v3.1.2 with the new baseband. The new unlock comes with hacktivation support, 15 second faster than previous solutions, tethering and easier than ever.
For new users:
- Go to blackra1n.com
- Download [...]

 
Sure, it has missed the promised August date but it looks like iPhone 3GS is due anytime now. One of our tipster let us know that iPhone 3GS has hit the Apple India website. We are not sure if it has been added today or for the past few days but this definitely is an [...]

 
As confirmed by O2 UK yesterday, Apple has pushed an update to its iPhone OS 3.0. The new v3.0.1 update fixes the SMS vulnerability that allowed the hacker to gain full control of victim’s iPhone. As for users using jailbreak and unlocking solutions, the iPhone Dev team has given the nod that it’s safe to [...]

 
UPDATE: O2 spokesperson has confirmed that the SMS patch will be available tomorrow via iTunes. No confirmation from Apple though. [Thanks, Jay]
While Apple seems to be dealing with superfluous issues trying to save cell towers from jailbreaking, security researcher Charlie Miller at the Black Hat security conference showed that the phone maker has something big [...]

 
iPhone 3GS maybe the device that gives you endless hours of entertainment but when it comes to security and encryption, it fails miserably. Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and a hacker claims that iPhone 3GS encryption is useless and “It’s kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret decoder ring.”
Even [...]

 
Oh iPhone 3GS unlockers, you really are spoilt for choices now. If you thought the iPhone Dev team were Gods in this scene, GeoHot too has come to the party to attain the same tag with his Purplesn0w unlock tool. Even though it’s a soft unlock, GeoHot claims it as good as a true unlock [...]

 
The iPhone Dev team has updated its jailbreaking and unlocking solutions to v0.8 that integrates iPhone 3GS jailbreaking and unlocking support. Download the redsn0w for Windows, Linux or Mac from the link below and then install Ultrasn0w 0.8 from Cydia. Though we’re not sure, the ultrasn0w unlock should work with purplera1n jailbroken devices since it [...]

 
UPDATE 2: Now Mac version as well as RC2a version for Windows is available. Go to the link below.
UPDATE: GeoHot updated the Purplera1n jailbreak with support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 64-bit support. The RC2 version also improves payload injection.
We have got the first iPhone 3GS jailbreaking tool dubbed as purplera1n. As you would [...]

 
UPDATE: an iPhone 3GS jailbreak tool ‘Purplera1n’ has been released.
The iPhone Dev Team has done it again. Check out the video showing the iPhone 3GS succumbing to Ultrasn0w and working flawlessly over another network (T-Mobile in this case). The Ultrasn0w tool uses at+xlog vulnerability to inject the unlocking payload, which actually works like the iPhone [...]

 
Want some brown color for your spanking new white iPhone 3GS? You can have it at no extra cost except for fulfilling few conditions, which is to keep on its GPS most of the time and surf on 3G. The iPhone 3GS will overheat, bake inside and give you nice brown shade on the outside…for [...]

 
Yes, fellas they did it. After confirming the exploit a couple of days back, they managed to jailbreak the device. However, don’t get your hopes high to get this solution anytime soon because they are holding it back to keep Apple off the exploit that could enable them to patch and close the jailbreak exploit [...]

 
Good news for iPhone 3GS users waiting for the unlock. The iPhone Dev team has found the 24Kpwn exploit in the bootrom of 3GS which could allow them to jailbreak and possibly unlock the device.
Keep your fingers crossed because you may get it sooner than expected since the exploit is similar to what is [...]

 
iPhone 3GSers you need to wait a little longer but iPhone 3G users running v3.0 can go ahead and free their phones from the shackles of AT&T or any other operator (depending on your region). Just follow the steps below and you’re done.
1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
2. Jailbreak your iPhone [...]