There are confimed reports from sites like hackintosh, gearlive, and iphonehacks that the hackers got their hands on the latest 1.1.3 firmware. This information is first published by folks at gearlive.com. This firmware is supposed to be released around the time of macworld conference on 14 to 18 of jan-2008. But somehow hackers got a handle on it. Cool dudes! gearlive.com has articles on the features of the new firmware with an image gallery. They also have a video also to banish all the claims that the photos are hand-crafted and fake.
The good news for the people waiting for their OOTB 1.1.2 phones to be unlocked is that the new 1.1.3 firmware has a new baseband also. What this means is that the hackers can now develop a software unlock using the new baseband firmware. Please read my earlier post for more technical details on this. An early word of caution for the people who are going to unlock their OOTB 1.1.2 is to not upgrade their phones to 1.1.3 firmware. This might lock their phones again and might not be able to revert back. I am sure we will get more information on this when the hackers release a software unlock. All the best for the hackers in their efforts.
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