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I’m seeing reports that 1.1.3 has been jailbroken, but that it apparently involves some hardware. Trying to get details now.

In the meantime, DON’T UPGRADE TO 1.1.3 UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET STUCK THERE. The jiggling icons & google maps pseudo-GPS are cool but, they’re not that cool.

So here’s the deal.  The motivated geniuses on the iPhone Dev Team have got the method, and have posted a couple of videos to youtube showing the results.  But, here’s where the cat-n-mouse game comes into it.  They’re not going to release the method until after Apple releases the SDK.   Makes sense if you think about it - the SDK may come with yet another upgrade, or maybe not.  But, it would be bad to have to choose between jailbroken and the SDK apps.  By waiting until the SDK has been relased, then we have a sweet spot where we’ve got that and all of our third-party apps.

The annoying thing is, that this is so completely unnecessary.  Wouldn’t it be so much easier if Apple would just give us OpenSSH and terminal.app with the new upgrades.  The cat & mouse game goes on, they break our unlock for a day or week or two, and then we’re back to playing our games on the new firmware.  It’s not going to end, there are more smart motivated people trying to unlock it than there are trying to keep it locked.  I hope Apple isn’t wasting a lot of effort on this, which could be better spent improving the iPhone/iPod Touch with, oh, I don’t know, maybe Flash viewer or something?

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