According to an industrial analyst Katy Huberty, 85% of the people don’t buy iPhone because of the hardware cost and 66% don’t use iPhone because of high service charges. So iPhone hardware cost and service charges are the major issue in the mass level adoption of iPhone. Acc. to Huberty iPhone 4G will be less costly than is predecessors.

iPhone’s recent 3.1.3 firmware update hasn’t really been a success for jailbreak users, quite a lot of issues have been reported while upgrading from firmware 3.1.2. Updating to OS 3.1.3 updates baseband of your iPhone as well, it will be 05.12.01. The latest Modem Firmware 05.12.01 baseband is not downgrade-able. So if you accidentally updated your iPhone to OS 3.1.3 and you want to downgrade/revert it back to OS 3.1.2, this guide will help you to do so. Please note that this tutorial is about downgrading iPhone 3G baseband which is currently on 3.1.3 firmware with 05.12.01 baseband and older bootloader 05.08 (5.8). This won’t work with iPhone 3GS.

Apple has recently released firmware 3.1.3 update. There aren’t many changes in this latest firmware from previous 3.1.2 firmware, but still people are quite eager to upgrade their iPhone/iPod Touch to firmware 3.1.3. The ones who are on official carriers can off course upgrade without any worries, but upgrading to latest firmware isn’t a good idea for those who are using jailbroken/unlocked iPhone or iPod Touch. We warned jailbreak users NOT to upgrade to latest firmware as well, as doing so will alter baseband of their device can lose unlock capability. OS 3.1.3 contains a baseband update 05.12.01 for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The latest Modem Firmware 05.12.01 baseband is not down gradable. So if you accidentally updated your iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS to OS 3.1.3 and you want to downgrade/revert it back to OS 3.1.2, this guide will help you to do so.

Apple has released firmware 3.1.3, with the release of new firmware, jailbreaking and unlocking tools are emerging as well. Earlier, we shared the procedure to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS (Older Bootroms Only) with sn0wbreeze on latest iPhone firmware 3.1.3. Snowbreeze actually preserves your older baseband while upgrading your device to the latest iPhone 3.1.3 OS/firmware. We have already shared a tutorial on unlocking your iPhone on 04.26.08 baseband using ultrasn0w. If your iPhone is on 05.11.07 baseband, than this tutorial will help you to unlock your iPhone via blacksn0w.

Earlier, we shared the detailed procedure to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS (Older Bootroms Only) with sn0wbreeze on latest iPhone firmware 3.1.3. Snowbreeze actually preserves your older baseband while upgrading your devcie to the latest iPhone 3.1.3 OS/firmware, hense you can unlock your iPhone 3G and 3GS with ultrasn0w (for 04.26.08 baseband) or blacksn0w (for 05.11.07 baseband) as they both of these tools are compatible or work with the respective mentioned older baseband versions.

Apple just released 3.1.3 firmware update for iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch. It didn’t take long for Dev-Team to come up with a tool to jailbreak firmware 3.1.3. Dev-Team has just released redsn0w 0.9.4 tool to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 2G, 3G, iPod Touch 1G and iPod Touch 2G(Non MC Models). Unlock facility is not available for iPhone 3G. Please note down that if you using jailbroken iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch 2G(New Models) and iPod Touch 3G, do NOT upgrade to firmware 3.1.3, as your device may no longer be an unlocked one if you do so.

Apple has released two software updates back to back, iTunes 9.0.3 and firmware 3.1.3 for iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch. With the release of new firmware, tools for jailbreaking and unlocking emerge as well. If you are on jailbroked and unlocked iPhone/iPod Touch, we recommend NOT to upgrade your devices to firmware 3.1.3 now. Wait for proper tested jailbreaking and unlocking tools for firmware 3.1.3, also it’s crucial to mention that every jailbreaking tools doesn’t necessarily come with unlocking facility, so you have to careful. If you want an unlocked device, you will have to wait for a tool that jailbreaks and unlocks firmware 3.1.3 as well.

Apple has released firmware 3.1.3 upgrade for iPhone 3G,3GS and iPod Touch. This release falls in bugs-fix category, as few bugs reported in last firmware have been rectified in it, no major changes. Surprisingly, firmware 3.1.3 is not the same OS (OS 3.2) which runs on the recently announced Apple iPad. With the release of latest firmware, arrival of jailbreaking software/tools from iPhone geeks is imminent.

Snowbreez is yet another tool for jailbreaking iPhone and iPod Touch, it’s similar to other jailbreaking tools like blackra1n, redsn0w and PwnageTool. All these tools are used to create custom .ipsw files to jailbreak iPhone/iPod. The enhancement Sn0wbreez brings is that it works on Windows 7/Vista and XP. If you are unlucky to jailbreak your iPhone with earlier mentioned tools, you can give Snowbreeze a try to see if it helps in jailbreaking your iPhone.

Push Notifications usually don’t work good on hactivated iPhones (2G,3G,3GS). Many fixes have been shared before regarding this, most recent fix was “PushFix” via iPhoneil available in Cydia, but it wasn’t a proper solution and it stopped working after a while as it used a single certificate for many users causing wrong push notifications and battery drainage issues. Now Ver.2 of PushFix is available, and it actually works very well, basically the error/issue which has been rectified in new release is that you get a unique certificate for your hactivated iPhone against your mobile EMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), each unique certificate costs US $5.99.