It’s been released folks.  Check out the officially unofficial iphone-dev team blog for more information.

Click here to download purplera1n

George Hotz says, “yes i make it ra1n”, (or was that Fat Joe and Lil Wayne?)

I do not have a 3GS to currently test out, but looks like a simple plug, click, and jailbreak.  Again, do not upgrade to 3.1 if you plan on jailbreaking or even unlocking.

Working on a step by step guide right now for y’all.

CONFIRMED: Does NOT work with VMing to Bootcamp partition

In the meantime for those of you who figured it out and have it working, gpSPhone and psx4iphone will be available in Cydia very shortly.  I would highly recommend, if not strongly suggest that you try them.  You will see the full power of the 3GS with psx4iphone, I promise.

Read the full article here:  geohot’s blog

Alright folks. I’m going to try and break it down simply as I possibly can - and I’m not sure if even that’s good enough. For starters, I’m going to split each section by phone. You should probably read about your phone if you want to jailbreak and unlock it.

First, here are some terms.  After reviewing these, skip down to your phone to find out more information and firmware links.

PwnageTool

A Mac tool to jailbreak iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1G.  This will also unlock iPhone 2G.  This tool will create custom IPSW to flash your device with.  To use it, you must download the firmware to be able to modify it.  This post has all of the latest firmware links in their respective sections.

download mac (sha1 2e19d39398233f88ae0782fd82462a9223791f7f)

redsn0w

A Mac and PC tool enabling you to jailbreak iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 1G, and iPod Touch 2G.  This also unlocks the iPhone 2G.  You can use this after an official update or restore (through iTunes), which means not using a custom built firmware.  This is the quickest method of jailbreaking your device - previously known as QuickPwn.

Update:  redsn0w is was just updated to 0.7.2.  Fixed are for PPC and Icy.  New links are posted below along with new sha1 sums

download mac (sha1 0d58ff133461f3487a80200fe924741dd393b724)

download pc (sha1 444a3120b6bfd98838df74d598d3799cf656dfff)

Just a note for Windows users - if you’re having a problem extracting the files on Vista or Windows 7, I would suggest using a third party archive tool such as 7zip.

ultrasn0w

The latest development from the iphone-dev team.  This is the soft unlock for 3.0 (baseband 04.26.08).  This is not released as of this posting.  It will be available (as far as I know) via Cydia, just like yellowsn0w)

iPhone 2G

Current jailbreakable & unlockable firmware:  3.0 (iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

The iPhone 2G remains unlocked.  It will always remain unlocked.  Pretty self explanatory.  You can update at any time and jailbreak - your phone will remain unlocked.

iPhone 3G

If you rely on yellowsn0w for cellular service, DO NOT UPGRADE TO 3.0!  You must be patient.  ultrasn0w is coming and once it’s out, you’ll be able to upgrade and have an unlocked 3.0 iPhone 3G.  And yes, this will work for ALL iPhone 3G!

Current jailbreakable firmware:  3.0 (Phone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

As for providing the links, these are for reference.  You are going to need the firmware file in an accessible place if you plan to use the dev-team tools, as all of them require you to select the firmware.  Again, iPhone 3G is 3.0 jailbroken, but NOT unlocked!

iPhone 3GS

Current firmware: 3.0 (iPhone 2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

Easy:  not jailbroken, not unlocked.  However, the iPhone 3GS has the same baseband (04.26.08) as the iPhone 3G 3.0 firmware.  I believe if and when the iphone-dev team jailbrake the 3GS, it wll be an instant unlock because the exploit is already found.  Well done, Apple - and thanks @Oranav!