When the iPhone Dev Team announced on April 1st that their team was being dismantled, and their intellectual property was being swallowed down the gullet of some fat-cat enemy of the people, Some sites took the bait (albeit with a small dose of skepticism). Now that the fog that is April Fools Day has lifted, the iPhone Dev Team has revealed that, like Hilary Clinton (and Rocky), they are not going to abandon their mission. In fact, just to show that they are good sports, they gave Engadget a hands-on walkthrough of their new Pwnage tool, which will let you load any firmware you want on your iPhone, including patched firmware not signed by Apple (bring on the Linux!). The video is available here.
Update: The Pwnage tool is now officially available from the iPhone Dev Team; though, for now, the tool is Mac only.
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4-03-2008 @ 1:25PM
Todd said...
That is so gnarly - any firmware, no signature required, and they had the 2.0 firmware cracked before it was released. Only now will I consider getting an iPhone once the new 3G version kicks the current down to $199 or less.
Come on Android hardware manufactures, get in the game, I am slipping ways as a customer!
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4-03-2008 @ 1:31PM
Tush said...
Oh if there was linux for the iPhone, I would get one in a second.
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4-04-2008 @ 9:24AM
James said...
Sooo... you want to take off the Apple interface so you're left with a mediocre phone that has two cool tricks (multi-touch and accelerometers), neither of which is likely to have support in any existing Linux phone apps.
Yay?