iPhone Dev Team’s secret jailbreak for sale on eBay

The iPhone Dev Team has been keeping their alternative jailbreak method under wraps in hopes of using against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the event that they patch the current jailbreak method with the release of the iPhone SDK. The iPhone v1.1.3 firmware looks to be the one that will play nice with Apple-sanctioned third-party applications, but that doesn’t mean that Apple will kill the current jailbreak exploit before bringing official iPhone applications to market.

It looks like the “real” jailbreak method is for sale on eBay. Well, it isn’t the actual jailbreak method itself that’s for sale, but rather an iPhone that has been jailbroken using this method. The current jailbreak is referred to as a “soft jailbreak” because it doesn’t really alter the iPhone v1.1.3 baseband or kernel. Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski’s iPhone uses the “private” jailbreak that the iPhone Dev Team uses to jailbreak their own iPhones - a method that modifies the baseband and kernel for fully compliant, bug-less jailbreak firmware. He has put his own jailbroken iPhone 4GB up on eBay with the following description:

“This 4GB iPhone has been my development phone since Apple’s initial release. It has been with me when we first jail-broke firmware 1.0.0, was used when I wrote ‘iPhone Open Application Development,’ and today is proudly running the ‘private’ jailbreak of firmware 1.1.3.

“The private jailbreak is how members of the dev-team jailbreak our own phones, but is not presently available to the public. This is one of the only ‘true’ jailbreaks out there for v1.1.3, and as such is running the 1.1.3 baseband, 1.1.3 kernel, and is activated - running flawlessly with the native Google (NSDQ: GOOG) location service, fully functioning sync, sound, and all other features as a proper upgrade does. The firmware was updated directly in iTunes, and so is a completely legal software revision to include with the iPhone. As a week 23 phone, this iPhone has the older boot-loader, which allows for unlocking. 1.1.3 unlocking development is underway, but will require an older bootloader like this one. And if you can’t wait then you can always downgrade the baseband when the next firmware version rolls out.”

So, if you want to own a piece of Apple iPhone history, head on over to eBay and see if you can’t score yourself NerveGas’s very own iPhone.

[Via: iPhone Atlas]