iPhone 3G Jailbreak and Emulators
rsanchez | Electronics26 Jun 2009
The iPhone 3G is hot and has been wowing tech lovers all over the world. Unfortunately, Apple has been the target of a lot of hackers since they won’t allow their iPhone OS to go Open Source. Hence the race to jailbreak the latest iPhone is on…
…and it just latest a few days as there has been reports that there’s a jailbreaking program to be released. Here’s some comment coming from the one who did it: Geohot
Earlier today, we got our hands on the bootrom. With the help of chronic, posixninja, and pod2g, I verified that it is still vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit present in the iPod Touch 2G. This is great news for all of you. Basically, this means if someone makes a tethered jailbreak, it easily becomes untethered, because the boot chain is broken. Expect big things soon
On a personal note, I’m sad. Apple, it took me a week to break through your new defenses. And to let us reuse an exploit like that; 24kpwn was so 5 months ago. Although I imagine it must have been painful watching the devices roll by on the assembly line, knowing they all had a hole in them and you couldn’t fix it.
Bad news for Apple? We’ll see in a few days.
Since the jailbreaking program is still being ironed out, let’s take a look at one of the possible softwares that can be used on a jailbroken iPod 3G: a PSOne and GameBoy emulator.
I believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, and a YouTube vid is worth a million. Watch:
Imagine playing all the PSOne and Game Boy classics on your iPhone! As of the moment, these are considered as illegal downloads and programs, but if the gaming companies out there see this, why not create new games for the iPhone? They’ll earn quite a lot and the iPhone might give the PSP and DS a run for their money as well!This is certainly something to watch out for.
To end the week of iPhone 3G news mayhem, here’s something to make you laugh. Someone created a mock iPhone and changed the icons to something he would really appreciate: his own mug.
Now this could be the start of something good for future personalizations on the iPhone. It may look silly to some but changing or updating icons or even fonts would really make the iPhone great.
See you guys next week! Have a great weekend!
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