The future looks bright for unlocking and jailbreaking the upcoming iPhone v2.1 firmware for EDGE iPhone users, and jailbreakable for 3G users (the 3G unlock is still being worked on see more…). In the iPhone Dev Team’s latest update they have detailed their success with Pwning iPhone 2.1 beta firmwares

DevTeam members have an internal beta version of Installer 4 from RiPDev. It looks very nice, and expect a release from them soon. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we’d estimate certainly not within the next few days and less than a couple of weeks. We’ve attached another couple of screenshots at the end in case you want to see more.

We are also testing an internal build of PwnageTool for iPhone OS 2.1b2 (for first generation iPhones and also 3G models). Unlock and jailbreak is working fine on the 1st Gen (we don’t think Apple is even trying anymore to prevent pwnage or unlocks for 1st Gen iPhones). For 3G, jailbreak certainly still works, and this will be released in good time.

So what’s going on with the iPhone 3G unlock? The dev team can now work a little more comfortably in the knowledge they won’t brick their coveted 3G’s. Progress is now starting to heat up!

With all this upgrading and downgrading, we were worried about bricks, so we’ve developed a method to dump the WiFi tables and the seczones. Now we can modify without sweating, since a successful recovery can be made at any point. With this out of the way, changing our underwear every 5 minutes isn’t necessary!

So, we are making steady progress towards the goal of a software-based iPhone 3G unlock. Please note though that we are working hard on it with no estimates of if and when it will be completed. We’ll update you as soon as we know anything else so stay tuned and watch this space.