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iPhone Dev team has released the final build of its redsn0w jailbreaking tool. The latest v0.9.2 can jailbreak all iPhones and iPod touches and supports v3.x firmware. The jailbreak however, is with a catch as newer models will still have a tethered jailbreak, which means you’ll have to jailbreak again after you completely restart the [...]

 
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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
Well, you still don’t get the promised ultrasn0w tool yet but the iPhone Dev team has gone ahead and released redsn0w that jailbreaks all the iPhone and iPod Touch devices except iPhone 3G S and even unlocks the first-gen iPhone. The jailbreaking tool is available for Mac OS X via Pwnage Tool and Quickpwn, which [...]

 
The iPhone Dev team has released a beta version of redsn0w allowing iPod Touch 2G owners to jailbreak the device by running it from the command line. However, if you’re not comfortable running command lines, you should wait because the same redsn0w functionality will be integrated in the GUI tools which will be released later [...]

 
The iPhone Dev team has done it again. After bringing the tethered iPod Touch 2G jailbreak, they have released a patch to make the tethered jailbreak into an untethered one. If you’re not comfortable doing it manually, you should rather wait for them to release the solution to work with Pwnage or QuickPwn tools.
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iPhone Dev team released Redsn0w Lite for iPod Touch 2G but the only beneficiaries were Mac iPod owners depriving Windows iPod owner. However, some kind gentleman took up the task and written a very detailed tutorial to jailbreak the player from Windows too. All it takes is 12 steps to make it enter the world [...]

 
The temporariness must be the reason iPhone Dev released the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak solution silently. Anyways, people seeking desperately to jailbreak the player can head over to RedSn0w to download Redsn0w Lite. The ‘Lite’ tag along with Redsn0w denotes it as a tethered jailbreak, meaning you need to run the jailbreak commands each time [...]