PowerPC owners: welcome to the jailbreak

Last week, my esteemed colleague Crazy (like a fox) Chris Breen walked you through the steps required to jailbreak your phone with version 1.1.2 of the iPhone’s firmware. Admittedly, the procedure is kind of convoluted, and it has a number of prerequisites. But hacking moves far faster than the speed of light, so it’s little surprise that there’s already a new version of the jailbreak software.

That revised version adds a lot of new features, such as allowing you to activate your phone without having to go deal with AT&T, and adding support for the YouTube application. But I think most users will be most excited to see that this version finally supports Macs with PowerPC processors, so those of you still running on G4s and G5s can finally join the hacking club (all at your own risk still, naturally).

[via Infinite Loop]

Category: Software

Posted by Dan Moren on Nov 19 2007, 2:50 PM ET

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