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.

Credibility of jailbreaking and unlocking tools for iPhone has really become a question! Another jailbreaking tool named Gull1hack has arrived, its developer are claiming that tool will be able to jailbreak iPhone(3G,3GS) and iPod Touch(All models) with new bootrom(05.12.01) and it will be untethered.

Sn0wbreeze v1.5 has been released. This is the updated version of snowbreeze, it basically adds support for iPod touch 2G (older models). Sn0wbreeze is a similar to PwnageTool, both create custom .ipsw files for iPhone/iPod Touch. PwnageTool is for MAC users and Sn0wbreeze is for Windows users. So now latest version of snowbreeze supports iPhone 2G,3G,3GS and iPod Touch 1G,2G.

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.

Sn0wbreeze 3.1.3 has been released to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS on latest firmware 3.1.3. However, there is a limitation for iPhone 3GS users, software will work with iPhone 3GS only if it has old bootrom (non-MC model). If you have upgraded your iPhone 3GS to 3.1.3 firmware 3.1.3 than snowbreeze tool won’t on your device.

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.