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iPhone 3G unlock still not working – iPhone Dev Team says Pwnage Tool 2.0 will only jailbreak and activate iPhone 3G

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 2:00 PM

Most of us out there with iPhone 3G‘s in hand probably don’t have much use for an unlocking tool, having already signed that 2-year contract with AT&T and all. But, there are going to be a good lot of you itchin’ to get your iPhone 3G unlocked and ready to work with any GSM network on the planet.

For the latter group, we have some bad news. The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they are not going to release their Pwnage Tool 2.0 with iPhone 3G SIM-unlock support. While the new Pwnage Tool will unlock (as well as jailbreak and activate) original iPhones running iPhone 2.0 OS, the iPhone 3G will only be given jailbreak and activation support.

Pwnage Tool 2.0 screenshot

The iPhone Dev Team has run in to some issues in unlocking Apple’s next-generation iPhone 3G, and they don’t want to release an unlocking solution until it’s fully ready to work with any and all 3G-toting iPhones out-of-the-box. But, if/when the iPhone Dev Team gets a fully-functional iPhone 3G baseband unlock solution up and running, they’ll push an update to Pwnage Tool that will enable iPhone 3G’ers to unlock their precious handset.

For now, the video of the “World’s First Unlocked iPhone 3G” is going to be little more than a wish and a dream for anyone looking to unlock their iPhone 3G.

Stay tuned for the official release of the Pwnage Tool 2.0.

This is the “dream” mentioned above:

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • siddhant

    hey by when would the software unlock + simlock be available?

  • Arjun

    So what about the Brazilian guys that claim to have successfully unlocked an iPhone 3G with a SIM card adapter? why is that not a functional way to unlock the 3G?

  • Adnan

    Hey,
    thats tru the itch part on Iphone 3g sim unlock…
    i have been waiting for the soft sim unlock.
    as i heard that even getting the hard sim unlock done the firmware cannot be upgraded.

    please please do the spll and bring the soft sim unlock ASAP.

    waiting.
    regards,
    Adnan

  • Dr.F.K.Bahgat

    iPhone 3G is an attractive toy not more.
    It seems that Apple people is trying to prove their Log which is an apple missing a bit,this is the exact situation of iPhone.
    My advice that they have to go and learn from Nokia experts, how to make good software for their cell phone and not to relay on their repetition which seems that they will loose it soon.