iPhone 3G S Jailbreak Available Now iPhone 3G S PurpleRa1n Jailbreak Utility Released

We offered you a heads up concerning the Dev Team's up and coming
Ultrasn0w iPhone Jailbreak Utility early last month and now, less than a
month later, the big news that anyone wishing to jailbreak their new
iPhone 3G S running the 3.0 firmware is here - the iPhone 3G S
PurpleRa1n jailbreak utility is now available.

The work of Geohot, the PurpleRa1n jailbreak utility for iPhone 3G S
running 3.0 firmware, which will allow end users to run numerous
modifications, load up strictly unofficial apps and facilitate the
skinning of their iPhone 3G S as well as - and this is certainly one of
the main draws - unlock the device for use on other GSM networks will,
unfortunately, only work with devices running the 3.0 firmware so users
who have updated to 3.1 are, for want of a better word, stuffed. Or at
least they are in the meantime - though the meantime could be somewhat
more extended than would otherwise have been the case were it not for
the vulnerability that was being utilised to exploit 3.01 being fixed by
Apple.

The PurpleRa1n jailbreak utility for iPhone 3G S requires a PC running
Windows with the latest iteration of iTunes installed though Geohot has
confirmed that a Mac friendly version is in the offing. Update: The Mac
compatible version of PurpleRa1n is now available, see - iPhone 3GS Mac
Friendly Jailbreak Now Available PurpleRa1n Jailbreak (Mac Compatible) .

Once your iPhone 3G s is jailbroken, the device can be unlocked thanks
to the aforementioned Ultrasn0w utility and you're away. That said
Geohot has advised that the PurpleRa1n jailbreak utility for iPhone 3G S
is presently very much a beta so, it goes without saying, you use it at
your own risk and in the knowledge that issues are not wholly out of the
question (though it's reported as stable).

Of course, just in case anyone from Apple are reading this (and we know
from experience that they do) we don't in any way endorse the use of the
above software but who are we to moralise? Besides, would you listen to
us? No, of course not…And, with that squarely in mind, here's a
video concerning how to do it.