Pwnage 2.0 released: For iPhone 3G, you can only jailbreak
- July 20th, 2008
- 9 Comments
Pwnage 2.0 is here! It was officially released a few hours ago, and the servers have been pounded ever since. As such, mirrors keep popping up on the Dev Team’s blog; be sure to check often if you’re keen to use the software.
Note that for the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch, Pwnage 2.0 only jailbreaks—that is to say it doesn’t unlock Apple’s newest speedbumped phone or now-overpriced portable media player. The easy-to-use software does, however, jailbreak and unlock 1st gen iPhones, even if they’re upgraded to firmware 2.0.
Now is when I ask what’s the point of jailbreaking an iPhone 3G when there’s already a fully functional, Apple-approved App Store?
James (Who am I?)
1 month ago
The answer, of course, is that Apple’s official App Store carries only applications which have been approved by Apple as providing only the functionality Apple wants to be available, meaning no tools like OpenSSH (for logging in and transferring files to/from the iPhone), for example. More importantly, though, jailbreaking appears to be a prerequisite for unlocking the handsets to work with networks other than the official ones; in the UK at least, the cheapest of the original iPhone tariffs is more than *double* the price of a comparable plan from other networks! (The new cheaper 3G tariff closes the gap slightly, but it’s still almost double.)
Reid (Who am I?)
1 month ago
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Now is when I ask what’s the point of jailbreaking an iPhone 3G when there’s already a fully functional, Apple-approved App Store?
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When you want to run non-apple approved software. You can write your own software and load it on the phone, or run one of the sweet apps that someone else has written (but which apple will never put on the App Store because Apple/AT&T don’t want it).
Examples: An application that lets your share your iphone’s 3g connection with computers via its 802.11, VoIP applications, etc.
Nicholas Deleon (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Fair enough. I didn’t say there was anything wrong with jailbreaking the iPhone 3G, I just didn’t think there’d still be much demand for it now with the App Store.
Jailbreak away!
-na
Will (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Yep, plenty of things still very desirable to do, even with the appstore. Summerboard themes. SSH access. Mobile scrobbling. Terminal app. Etc.
onlygb (Who am I?)
1 month ago
I want my old apps. The vast majority of the AppStore apps either suck or cost money when they were free before.
I don’t care how much demand exists. Those apps made the 1.1.4 firmware more interesting, customizable, and entertaining.
Try to find a decent, free, game of Solitaire on the AppStore.
Try to find a free game of chess on the Appstore.
Try to mark all of your email as READ using apps from the AppStore.
Try to hide applications using apps from the AppStore.
Try to customize the icons on your iPhone using apps from the AppStore.
Those of you that have never tried a jailbroken phone have no idea what you’re missing. That’s fine if you don’t want to find out but those of us that have been outside the cave and seen the sun refuse to go back into that dark hole you live in.
FREEDOM!!!
Steven in Athens (Who am I?)
1 month ago
YouTube works with pwned 2.0 first gen!!!
Exitium (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Yay. Nice job.
Looking for Windows-version…
rapin4tay (Who am I?)
1 month ago
is there anyway to download zip files to a 3g?? I hate this phone simply because u can only play at bids and can’t download anything other than apple stuff or save a fukin picture. I’m about to send the phone back!!
rapin4tay (Who am I?)
1 month ago
at bids — I meant at qt vide. I’d like to download whatever file extension I want like import some avi’s. Who the hell watches QuickTime vids? Also can anyone tell me if the apple. Com trailers play in great quality on their 3g, because mine plays vide VERY choppy. Thanks guys.