George Hotz, the 20-year old hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has released a jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS codenamed “purplera1n.” It’s currently Windows-only (Windows 7 not supported), and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. Update (6 July 2009): it’s now available for Mac too, and there are

George Hotz, who gained notoriety when he unlocked the original iPhone, has released a jailbreaking application for the iPhone named purplera1n. For now, it's Windows only (Windows 7 not supported). The jailbreak requires the latest version of iTunes and an iPhone 3GS with firmware 3.0.

The first ever iPhone 3GS jailbreak application has finally been released by long-time Apple hacker, George Hotz. It’s currently Windows-only (7 not supported), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. The process was amazingly simple. To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows (but

Just as America gears up to celebrate Independence Day comes news that iPhone 3GS owners are getting some freedom of their own. George Hotz, who you may recall as the teenage hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS code named purplera1n. It enables the installation of

Brussels / R.Bollen. Just after George Hotz released his purplera1n last Friday, to put pressure on the iPhone Dev Team to release their unlocking tool, the iPhone Dev Team has finally released redsn0w 0.8, capable of jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS. The iPhone Dev Team is a group of crackers in the iPhone OS community who have developed many cracking (jailbreaking) and unlocking applications for Appl...

George Hotz (aka Geohot) who had released a software called purplera1n to jailbreak iPhone 3GS only for Windows users before iPhone Dev Team released RedSn0w has now released purplesn0w to unlock iPhone 3GS. He claims that his iPhone 3GS unlock solution is better than UltraSn0w which was released by the...

George Hotz is the teenage hacker who unlocked the original iPhone, and he is now claiming he has created an application that can jailbreak the new iPhone 3GS reports an article on venturebeat. The new iPhone 3GS jailbreak app is called purplera1n and apparently can install 3rd party software even without Apple’s approval. Holtz released the purplera1n

Remember George Hotz? He’s the guy(kid) that unlocked the first iPhone and traded it for a Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones. Well, he’s done it again, but this time it’s a jailbreak, not an unlock. This is for the iPhone 3GS on the 3.0 firmware using Windows. I had to start the app over

In response to the Dev Team's decision to wait until OS 3.1 to release a jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, George Hotz, aka Geohot, has released his own jailbreaking tool for the iPhone 3GS called purplera1n, as he announced on his site. Right now it's only for Windows, but he says a Mac version is next on his list. It's still in beta, and many of the comments on his website are from pe...

It looks like GeoHot (also known as George Hotz) is at it again. He is one of the iPhone hackers out there that always seems to discover exploits and releases jailbreaking tools apart from the iPhone Dev Team. This time around, in his recent blog post titled Meet the Family, he talks about the upcoming release of a jailbreak tool that will work for ALL iPhone and iPod Touches ...