iPhone Techie

As we all know the new JailbreakMe userland browser based jailbreak doesn’t hacktivate phones so if a user with an unofficial SIM restores / upgrades to the latest 4.0 or 4.0.1 firmware (or any firmware for that matter) then the iPhone will be locked with an “Activation Lock” / Emergency Calls Only Screen.

iPhone Hacker Sherif Hashim found a new way to activate phones without having the original SIM cards but as usual and as expected, Apple found out about the phonebook SIM card trick and blocked this loophole.

If you have activated your iPhone using Phonebook SIM card method, you will probably see this error message “Different SIM Detected” on the lockscreen of your iPhone as you see it in the screenshot below. Don’t worry though, you can fix this issue by following our detail steps listed below. Read more…

Saurik discusses The History of Jailbreaking in an exclusive interview for Make It Work Radio, which aired Saturday July 24, 2010.

He also talks about the upcoming @comex jailbreak. You can watch two videos of the interview below… Read more…

Jay Freeman, also better known as Saurik, was interviewed by “Make it Work” where he talked about the iPhone 4 jailbreak and Cydia

See video below

Couple of days ago I wrote and article on our boy George Hotz (a.k.a. GeoHot) talking about how he had Jailbroken his new iPhone 4 on the same day it was delivered… Well it was not true and the picture in that post (By GeoHot) is a FAKE…

Well today Geohot has shut down his (iphonejtag.blogspot.com) iPhone blog he used to announce and release jailbreaks over the past few years. Read more…

It has been a while since GeoHot’s blog was updated, and now he (GeoHot) has posted an article and a picture showing his brand new iPhone 4 running Cydia.

According to his latest blog post, he has managed to jailbreak his iPhone 4 the day it got delivered to him by mail. This is what he writes on his blog:

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