iPhone News Updated

Pssst! Ready to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS?

By now we know that iPhone jailbreaking has become a popular challenge among a dedicated developer crowd and freeing the phone from Apple’s chains is a matter of “when”, not “if”. If you have the new iPhone 3GS, you can open up your phone now, less than month after the new model was announced.

The first jailbreaking tool for the iPhone 3GS was released late yesterday by George Holtz, a young developer who also jailbroke the original iPhone. Called “purplera1n”, only Windows XP and Vista users can unlock their iPhone. A Mac version is promised to follow shortly.
While Holtz recommends that a full backup of the phone should be made before running the software, the jailbreaking procedure is simple:

“Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there. Best tutorial gets linked to from purplera1n site. This tool is beta.”

Holtz indicated that he got impatient with a 3GS jailbreaking tool being made available to the public: “Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, what’s up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes.”

And he believes that this “game” will be played for a while: “It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole … this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.”

The tool can be downloaded free of charge from purplera1n.com.

[Thanks: http://www.tgdaily.com]

AT&T Says iPhone 3GS is Hot in a Good Way

The iPhone 3GS is hot according to AT&T. No, I’m not talking about the overheating issues, but a alleged leaked memo from the iPhone’s exclusive U.S. carrier. In the memo, AT&T reports the iPhone 3GS launch day on June 6 was the best-ever sales day for AT&T retail stores, according to MacDaily News.

June 6 was also the second largest traffic day for AT&T stores, and the most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day were performed during the iPhone 3GS launch day. The 3GS debut was so huge, for AT&T retail stores anyway, that sales for the device surpassed launch day sales for the iPhone 3G by noon Central Time.

After the iPhone 3GS initial launch weekend, Apple also reported a successful launch of its latest smart phone reporting that it had sold more than one million iPhone 3GS devices at Apple retail locations. That’s the same number Apple used to describe the iPhone 3G launch weekend last year.

What’s surprising, however, is a growing consensus that the iPhone 3GS debut may have been far bigger than the launch of the iPhone 3G. Last summer, the iPhone 3G debut was lauded as the most successful launch of any tech product in history. For days after its initial availability, fans were lining up around the block at Apple Stores across the United States and the world to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. Device shortages were a regular occurrence, and customers in less populated areas were left waiting for months to get their own wonder gadget from Apple.
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