You’ve probably never heard of this obscure new device called the iPhone 3G from no-name manufacturer Apple, but we decided to give a rundown of some of its newest apps anyway. We’ll be comparing them to non-SDK third-party apps that only work on jailbroken iPhones.

The iPhone 3G announcement at WWDC 2008 brought good news for sports fans as an official MLB.tv app will be bundled with the iPhone 3G. It provides live scoreboards, pitch-by-pitch updates, and current video highlights minutes after they happen. There is no comparable unlicensed third-party app, but Sportstap.mobi, formerly MLB iPhone, is a site that contains similar information and has been optimized for iPhone browsing. Sportstap does not offer all the rich content that MLB.tv app does, so this is a clear win for SDK apps.

For gamers, a few SDK games have come down the pike over the last few months, and today another game, Super Monkey Ball, was announced. It uses standard touchscreen controls in addition to new tilt controls, giving the gameplay a more complex and rich feel. Fun to be sure, but adventurous jailbreakers can feast on a much larger selection of games, including iPong, iChess, and the wonderful NES Emulator Application that can play hundreds of NES roms. While games as complex as Super Monkey Ball and Spore may never be written without the iPhone SDK, the busy and resourceful emulation community will always win out on game selection. In addition, only non-SDK developers have toyed with the idea of multiplayer games like Battleship Peer2peer, which allows users to play Battleship against human opponents.

On-the-go bloggers were also taken into account in the latest crop of native iPhone apps with the new Typepad app. It allows users to manage and edit posts on a Typepad blog, but it really shines where it comes to photo manipulation. The app allows users to add, move, and scale images on their blog, and it is capable of manipulating photos from the web or those taken with the iPhone’s built-in camera. There are a number of simple photo editing apps and a few notepad-style apps available to jailbroken iPhones, but nothing that even approaches the level of interactivity with a specific blogging service found in the Typepad app.

Productivity, audio, and miscellaneous apps made without the SDK abound, but it remains to be seen what innovations SDK developers will bring forth. With the list of iPhone applications still growing, it would be somewhat short-sighted of us to declare that one way is better than the other, but we’re curious where you stand on the issue. Do you prefer to be in the fold with Apple or the DIY spirit of making apps from scratch and eschewing the Cupertino ivory tower? Let us know.

This is just to give you a little insight into why there are so many warnings about AnySim1.3 and why the Dev’s dont endorse or approve of its release. The following is taken from the following thread on hackint0sh.org -

Sticky: [NOTICE] iphone-elite is not iphoneelite

“There is a lot of threads talking about iPhone Elite Team and the drama around it.
The Elite Team has been split in 2. To make the things clear, there are 2 identical Google code pages now.

Zibree’s page >> http://code.google.com/p/iphone-elite/
The rest of the Elite team page >> http://code.google.com/p/iphoneelite/

They are not sharing their work. So don’t get confused if you see different “Elite Team” releases.”

chris replied with the most sensible and mature responseto the entire situation.

” Just for the purposes of clarity, I would like to make a statement regarding ‘iphone-elite’ and iphoneelite.

The former ‘iphone-elite’ team and dev team have merged. There’s no new team name or anything of that sort as of yet, because we’ve been busy working on things.

We were having some personality issues with Zibri, and a vote was taken to part ways. Zibri went and locked all of the other former members of ‘iphone-elite’ out of our Google Code wiki, and thus, iphoneelite was born.

It’s just basically a migration of all the material we had on the other site to make sure that it would remain safe. I don’t anticipate that we’re going to continue doing/releasing stuff under the ‘iphoneelite’ name because it’s just too confusing for everyone.

I’d also like to take a moment to say something about the anySIM 1.1.3 leak and my own feelings with regards to that:

It was extremely disrespectful to Gray of all people, since it was entirely his work and was released without his consultation or approval.
I understand that everyone is always eager to get new releases of software, but you have to be aware that there are a multitude of issues that determine a release cycle, not the least of which is testing.

If memory serves, that release that’s now floating around had been tested on maybe 2 phones before it leaked. We had seen issues with earlier betas that didn’t pop up immediately and wanted to try to make sure those were all fixed.

To leak it, and then change the credits to say ‘A bunch of people’ and ‘Fixed and released by Zibri’ is beyond comprehension to me.

Everyone who uses that piece of software owes a great deal of thanks to Gray. He worked very diligently, and for no material gain of his own.

If you really want to show some thanks though, let it begin with showing enough basic respect to allow the developers to release software when they feel ready to do so.“

This is just to give you a little insight into why there are so many warnings about AnySim1.3 and why the Dev’s dont endorse or approve of its release. The following is taken from the following thread on hackint0sh.org -

Sticky: [NOTICE] iphone-elite is not iphoneelite

“There is a lot of threads talking about iPhone Elite Team and the drama around it.
The Elite Team has been split in 2. To make the things clear, there are 2 identical Google code pages now.

Zibree’s page >> http://code.google.com/p/iphone-elite/
The rest of the Elite team page >> http://code.google.com/p/iphoneelite/

They are not sharing their work. So don’t get confused if you see different “Elite Team” releases.”

chris replied with the most sensible and mature responseto the entire situation.

” Just for the purposes of clarity, I would like to make a statement regarding ‘iphone-elite’ and iphoneelite.

The former ‘iphone-elite’ team and dev team have merged. There’s no new team name or anything of that sort as of yet, because we’ve been busy working on things.

We were having some personality issues with Zibri, and a vote was taken to part ways. Zibri went and locked all of the other former members of ‘iphone-elite’ out of our Google Code wiki, and thus, iphoneelite was born.

It’s just basically a migration of all the material we had on the other site to make sure that it would remain safe. I don’t anticipate that we’re going to continue doing/releasing stuff under the ‘iphoneelite’ name because it’s just too confusing for everyone.

I’d also like to take a moment to say something about the anySIM 1.1.3 leak and my own feelings with regards to that:

It was extremely disrespectful to Gray of all people, since it was entirely his work and was released without his consultation or approval.
I understand that everyone is always eager to get new releases of software, but you have to be aware that there are a multitude of issues that determine a release cycle, not the least of which is testing.

If memory serves, that release that’s now floating around had been tested on maybe 2 phones before it leaked. We had seen issues with earlier betas that didn’t pop up immediately and wanted to try to make sure those were all fixed.

To leak it, and then change the credits to say ‘A bunch of people’ and ‘Fixed and released by Zibri’ is beyond comprehension to me.

Everyone who uses that piece of software owes a great deal of thanks to Gray. He worked very diligently, and for no material gain of his own.

If you really want to show some thanks though, let it begin with showing enough basic respect to allow the developers to release software when they feel ready to do so.“

I must first start off by saying that you do this at your own risk, I am posting this because the Tutorial will be helpful to anyone trying this method, and can fix all the 0049 IMEI iphones that currently cant be unlocked.

First thing, you should know or check your baseband, i have made a very comprehensive post about what your baseband and bootloader is and how to check them, please do that now if you have not already.

This will ONLY work on bootloader 3.9 iPhones if yours came with 1.1.2, this WILL NOT WORK!!!

Second, I will be starting from scratch, i.e. will be restoring the phone to factory mode (or as close as) for a clean install/upgrade. It is up to you how you want to do this. Before you begin, please sync you iphone, make sure it is charged and downlaod all the needed files, make sure you have enough time and that you read through the tutotrial a few times and if you dont feel comfortable doing this, then maybe you should wait for it to be done easier.

I created a shorter version of this tutorial on hackint0sh.org using iClarified for those who are already Soft-Updated to 1.1.3, and want to simply update the baseband and unlock with the IPSF method – this method cust about 45 mins or more out of the tutorial usually spent restoring/jailbreaking etc..

Below is the Long method – if you want to start from scratch or have 0049 IMEI

Files needed on your PC/Mac

1) ipsftool install pack for 1.1.3 – Download it here.
2) iPhone firmware 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3
3) WinSCP (PC) or Fugu (Mac)
4) iBrickr (Pc) or Independence (Mac)
5) iTunes 7.6
6) jailbreak.jar (1.1.2 jailbreak)

Files needed on your iPhone
1) BsdSubsystem
2) OpenSSH
3)Term-vt100

**** Instructions ****

1) Sync your iPhone with iTunes
2) Upgrade your iPhone to 1.1.3 via iTunes
3) Put your Phone into recovery mode (hold power+home for 10 secs, then let go power – screen will be blank and itunes will prompt you to restore – say ok)
4) Hold Shift+click restore and find the 1.1.1 iPhone Firmware you should have downloaded
5) When it’s done restoring you will get error 1015 – this is normal
6) Use iBrickr or Independence to boot the iPhone (if in ibrickr the screen turns green or independence cant boot it, in Itunes hold alt/shift+click restore and restore to 1.1.1 again and this time it will boot with Independence or iBrickr
7) Jailbreak 1.1.1. with *#307#, prefs://1F and jailbreakme.com
Install oktoprep from Installer
9) Shift/Alt+click UPGRADE to 1.1.2 (not restore – a restore will erase oktoprep)
10) Use jailbreak.jar to jailbreak 1.1.2 (it will reboot a couple times – if it doesn’t – itunes 7.6 sometimes interrupts – boot the iphone with ibrickr or independence and let it reboot if it needs to again)
11) 1.1.2 iphone should be jailbreaked, now setup your wifi and make sure autolock is set to NEVER, update installer!!!
12) Install BSDSubsystem on your iPhone
13) In installer on your iPhone install “Official 1.1.3 Soft-Update” from Dev team.
14) Run the Soft-Update from your Springboard (follow instructions – this can take from 30 mins to an hour depending on your internet speed) allow it to complete and reboot the iphone (if it gets stuck on reboot, use independence or ibrickr to reboot it, or hold power and home till the phone turns off)
15) Once completed you should have 1.1.3 Firmware and 1.1.3 baseband
16) Download the ipsf install pack from here
17) Extract the ipsftool-1.1.3-3.9_ONLY_-try5.rar file to your desktop – it should be a folder called ipsftool
18) Install BSDSubsystem, OpenSSH and Term-vt100 on your iphone.
a) you will need to add www.trejan.com/irepo to your sources in installer (if you are on jailbreked 1.1.3 with 04.03.13_G firmware/baseband/modem firmware) and install the “SUID Lib Fix” and “Term-vt100 SUID Fix” fix for 1.1.3 for term-vt100 to work – this is very important – the Termvt-100 password will be alpine – you can’t delete in Term-vt100, so make sure you type everything carefully and slowly – if you make a mistake, exit Term-vt100 and re-open it and start over)
19) Now log in with WinSCP or FUGU into your iphone (use your iphone ip address and username: root – password: alpine)
20) Create a folder called “ipsf” in /usr/bin
21) Copy all the files from ipsf tool on your desktop to /usr/bin/ipsf
22) Give ALL the files in the “ipsf” folder 0777 permissions (either in winscp/fugu or terminal)
This is a very important step, most if not all errors of this process will occur if you don’t have the right permissions – In WinSCp or Fugu right click the files and give them the right permissions, from terminal you can issue the following commands:

cd /usr/bin/ipsf
chmod 777 *

23) Once you have copied all the files from ipsftool to /usr/bin/ipsf open Term-vt100 on your iphone and issues the following commands.

cd /usr/bin/ipsf
./ipsf.sh

It will start going through allot fo code, please look out for erros and if you have any please search or post them for help.. but once successful, it should go through in about 5-7 mins and reboot after.

24) You should now have 1.1.3 totally unlocked – If your signal is giving trouble, run the Signal.app that should be on your springboard on your iphone. If after running signal.app you have no sound, simply play a song or ringtone to fix. Signal.app is set up to run on every reboot to get you signal, this is because the lockdown for 1.1.3 haes not been fixed to work with the IPSF unlock yet. and will hopefully be fixed soon

25) **** VERY IMPORTANT **** copy the entire “ipsf” dir from iphone somewhere “safe” (aka computer, usb key….), you SHOULD have copy of at file seczone pretty much as long as you will have that iphone

26) you can now sync as usuall and use your iphone, hope this helped and please post any problems, and we will try to fix.

This is all fairly new, and allot of the bugs have not been reported/fixed yet. Good luck and post any problems. I had to run the ipsf twice (i ran it once from 1.1.2 firmware with 1.1.3 baseband and when i softupgraded to 1.1.3 it wasnt working, i ran it again from 1.1.3 and all was fine)

Besides bragging rights there is no real benefit as of yet to upgrade to 1.1.3 with this method, it will be hard to reverse (if you have to, make sure you saved/backed up the ipsf folder from your phone to your PC – you will need the seczone files in there) and this method may be made allot easier soon.

I must first start off by saying that you do this at your own risk, I am posting this because the Tutorial will be helpful to anyone trying this method, and can fix all the 0049 IMEI iphones that currently cant be unlocked.

First thing, you should know or check your baseband, i have made a very comprehensive post about what your baseband and bootloader is and how to check them, please do that now if you have not already.

This will ONLY work on bootloader 3.9 iPhones if yours came with 1.1.2, this WILL NOT WORK!!!

Second, I will be starting from scratch, i.e. will be restoring the phone to factory mode (or as close as) for a clean install/upgrade. It is up to you how you want to do this. Before you begin, please sync you iphone, make sure it is charged and downlaod all the needed files, make sure you have enough time and that you read through the tutotrial a few times and if you dont feel comfortable doing this, then maybe you should wait for it to be done easier.

I created a shorter version of this tutorial on hackint0sh.org using iClarified for those who are already Soft-Updated to 1.1.3, and want to simply update the baseband and unlock with the IPSF method – this method cust about 45 mins or more out of the tutorial usually spent restoring/jailbreaking etc..

Below is the Long method – if you want to start from scratch or have 0049 IMEI

Files needed on your PC/Mac

1) ipsftool install pack for 1.1.3 – Download it here.
2) iPhone firmware 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3
3) WinSCP (PC) or Fugu (Mac)
4) iBrickr (Pc) or Independence (Mac)
5) iTunes 7.6
6) jailbreak.jar (1.1.2 jailbreak)

Files needed on your iPhone
1) BsdSubsystem
2) OpenSSH
3)Term-vt100

**** Instructions ****

1) Sync your iPhone with iTunes
2) Upgrade your iPhone to 1.1.3 via iTunes
3) Put your Phone into recovery mode (hold power+home for 10 secs, then let go power – screen will be blank and itunes will prompt you to restore – say ok)
4) Hold Shift+click restore and find the 1.1.1 iPhone Firmware you should have downloaded
5) When it’s done restoring you will get error 1015 – this is normal
6) Use iBrickr or Independence to boot the iPhone (if in ibrickr the screen turns green or independence cant boot it, in Itunes hold alt/shift+click restore and restore to 1.1.1 again and this time it will boot with Independence or iBrickr
7) Jailbreak 1.1.1. with *#307#, prefs://1F and jailbreakme.com
Install oktoprep from Installer
9) Shift/Alt+click UPGRADE to 1.1.2 (not restore – a restore will erase oktoprep)
10) Use jailbreak.jar to jailbreak 1.1.2 (it will reboot a couple times – if it doesn’t – itunes 7.6 sometimes interrupts – boot the iphone with ibrickr or independence and let it reboot if it needs to again)
11) 1.1.2 iphone should be jailbreaked, now setup your wifi and make sure autolock is set to NEVER, update installer!!!
12) Install BSDSubsystem on your iPhone
13) In installer on your iPhone install “Official 1.1.3 Soft-Update” from Dev team.
14) Run the Soft-Update from your Springboard (follow instructions – this can take from 30 mins to an hour depending on your internet speed) allow it to complete and reboot the iphone (if it gets stuck on reboot, use independence or ibrickr to reboot it, or hold power and home till the phone turns off)
15) Once completed you should have 1.1.3 Firmware and 1.1.3 baseband
16) Download the ipsf install pack from here
17) Extract the ipsftool-1.1.3-3.9_ONLY_-try5.rar file to your desktop – it should be a folder called ipsftool
18) Install BSDSubsystem, OpenSSH and Term-vt100 on your iphone.
a) you will need to add www.trejan.com/irepo to your sources in installer (if you are on jailbreked 1.1.3 with 04.03.13_G firmware/baseband/modem firmware) and install the “SUID Lib Fix” and “Term-vt100 SUID Fix” fix for 1.1.3 for term-vt100 to work – this is very important – the Termvt-100 password will be alpine – you can’t delete in Term-vt100, so make sure you type everything carefully and slowly – if you make a mistake, exit Term-vt100 and re-open it and start over)
19) Now log in with WinSCP or FUGU into your iphone (use your iphone ip address and username: root – password: alpine)
20) Create a folder called “ipsf” in /usr/bin
21) Copy all the files from ipsf tool on your desktop to /usr/bin/ipsf
22) Give ALL the files in the “ipsf” folder 0777 permissions (either in winscp/fugu or terminal)
This is a very important step, most if not all errors of this process will occur if you don’t have the right permissions – In WinSCp or Fugu right click the files and give them the right permissions, from terminal you can issue the following commands:

cd /usr/bin/ipsf
chmod 777 *

23) Once you have copied all the files from ipsftool to /usr/bin/ipsf open Term-vt100 on your iphone and issues the following commands.

cd /usr/bin/ipsf
./ipsf.sh

It will start going through allot fo code, please look out for erros and if you have any please search or post them for help.. but once successful, it should go through in about 5-7 mins and reboot after.

24) You should now have 1.1.3 totally unlocked – If your signal is giving trouble, run the Signal.app that should be on your springboard on your iphone. If after running signal.app you have no sound, simply play a song or ringtone to fix. Signal.app is set up to run on every reboot to get you signal, this is because the lockdown for 1.1.3 haes not been fixed to work with the IPSF unlock yet. and will hopefully be fixed soon

25) **** VERY IMPORTANT **** copy the entire “ipsf” dir from iphone somewhere “safe” (aka computer, usb key….), you SHOULD have copy of at file seczone pretty much as long as you will have that iphone

26) you can now sync as usuall and use your iphone, hope this helped and please post any problems, and we will try to fix.

This is all fairly new, and allot of the bugs have not been reported/fixed yet. Good luck and post any problems. I had to run the ipsf twice (i ran it once from 1.1.2 firmware with 1.1.3 baseband and when i softupgraded to 1.1.3 it wasnt working, i ran it again from 1.1.3 and all was fine)

Besides bragging rights there is no real benefit as of yet to upgrade to 1.1.3 with this method, it will be hard to reverse (if you have to, make sure you saved/backed up the ipsf folder from your phone to your PC – you will need the seczone files in there) and this method may be made allot easier soon.

Duas novidades sobre o celular da maça. A primeira é que estão saindo os primeiros modelos desbloqueados na Alemanha. O que ninguém imaginava é que eles são exatamente iguais aos bloqueados. Na hora da compra a loja anota o IMEI (número único do aparelho) e passa para Apple, depois de no máximo 24hs ele sincroniza com o iTunes e esta tudo liberado… A questão então é que o desbloqueio é via software e tudo indica que o pessoal da iPhoneSIMFree, que descobriram em primeriro lugar uma solução alternativa, foi direto ao ponto.

Outra notícia é que parece que várias empresas já estão com o SDK do iPhone. Isso indica que em breve teremos aplicações oficiais para o iPhone.

O pessoal da iPhoneSIMFree, que foram os primeiros a achar o caminho via software de desbloqueio, estão oferecendo a primeira solução de unlock para o iPhone com o software 1.1.1. Eles dizem que mesmo os aparelhos que ficaram temporariamente bloqueados podem usar o software. O problema é que custas U$ 100. As versões free devem vir na seqüência. 

Lo prometido es deuda. La gente de iPhoneSIMFree ha anunciado la salída del nuevo software para desbloquear el iPhone de las redes de AT&T.

Nuestros compañeros de Appleweblog nos explican los pasos a realizar para deseado desbloqueo:

Lo prometido es deuda. La gente de iPhoneSIMFree ha anunciado la salída del nuevo software para desbloquear el iPhone de las redes de AT&T.Nuestros compañeros de Appleweblog nos explican los pasos a realizar para deseado desbloqueo:

• Devuelve el teléfono al software 1.0.2 (según las instrucciones del iPhone/iTouch Dev Team).
• Registra tu IMEI verdadero (en la parte trasera del terminal) con los servidores de alguno de los distribuidores de iPhoneSIMFree.
• Apaga y saca la SIM del teléfono.
• Enciéndelo de nuevo e instala SimFree.app 1.6 (lo más sencillo es utilizar el instalador Apptapp)
• Sigue el tutorial (en inglés) para ejecutar la aplicación Simfree.

C’est finalement fait ! Après iPhoneSIMFree et 2 ou 3 autres méthodes payantes, nos chers amis de chez iPhone Dev Team ont réussi à débarré le iPhone sans l’ouvrir et en plus (pour l’instant) tout semble fonctionner sans problèmes. Même les mise-à-jour devraient fonctionner (bien évidemment si Apple ne met pas à jour le firmware du iPhone dans une update future…)

Trève de bavardage, voici les détails des manipulations :

1) Méthode manuelle (niveau : intermédiaire/avancé)

Cette méthode demande de bidouillé dans le shell et demande plusieures étapes complexe.

Je ne traduirai pas l’intégralité de la méthode, mais je vais vous offrir le lien et une image du site (au cas où il tombe).

http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/guide/ (en anglais)

Manipulation complète (PDF)

2) Méthode automatique (niveau : débutant)

Cette méthode est plus récente et doit être considérée comme “beta” car elle vient tout juste de sortir du four hier.

http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/unlock/ (en anglais)

Méthode avec logiciel tout-en-1 (PDF)

Pour cette méthode, vous aurez besoin du logiciel suivant :

http://rs160tl2.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160cg2.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160l33.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160l3.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160tl2.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160l32.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160l34.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://rs160gc.rapidshare.com/files/55201526/dl/Unlock.app.zip

http://depositfiles.com/files/1746511

http://www.theyearbooks.ca/iphone/Unlock.app.zip

Et ensuite de celui-ci (voir les détails dans sur freeiphoneunlock.com)

http://rs205tl.rapidshare.com/files/55177995/dl/iUnlock

http://rs205cg.rapidshare.com/files/55177995/dl/iUnlock

Amusez-vous bien

C’est enfin fait ! Une simple manipulation logicielle et le iPhone n’est plus restreint à AT&T !!!

Une nouvelle compagnie qui emploi 6 personnes douées qui ont travaillés depuis la sortie du iPhone de manière acharnée ont réussi à le débarrer de façon logicielle, sans modification de carte SIM ou de modification physique (lire soudure) le iPhone d’Apple.

La technique est gardée secrète, évidemment, et un site web est apparu: iPhoneSIMFree.com

Pour le prouver, iPhoneSIMFree ont contacté Engadget et ils ont des vidéos et des images pour le prouver : par ici.

Reste plus qu’à voir combien ils vont charger par license…

Voici quelques images qui le prouvent (source: Engadget).