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iPhone gamers rejoice Zdziarski has released the latest version of his must have iPhone NES emulator NES.app v2.3.0 for use with iPhone firmware v2.0. The big news with this release is the added support for the iPhone’s accelerometer allowing a whole new game play experience.

You can install the application via Cydia or do it yourself by downloading it from our iPhone downloads section under ‘Games’ or follow this direct link: Download NES.app v2.3.0

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It’s been released early! The iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool 2.0 is out! We’ve got it in our iPhone Downloads section under iPhone Utilities or simply click here to download it.

We are testing it out on both the iPhone EDGE & iPhone 3G and will have a full review our Pwning fun soon.

Files you may need to go with PwnageTool 2.0:
iPhone Firmware 2.0 for EDGE
iPhone Firmware 2.0 for 3G
iPhone BootLoaders 3.9 & 4.6

Don’t have a Mac? If you are using an iPhone EDGE with Windows you can try using iTunes to install the PwnageTool 2.0 custom firmware I created.

From the team:

We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it :)

Update: Just to clear up some confusion over what this actually does: yes, it jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and jailbreaks iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches. We only support the 2.0 firmwares.

Update: If you get Error 1600 from iTunes, try: mkdir “~/Library/iTunes/Device Support� ; if that directory already exists, remove any files in it. Then re-run PwnageTool.

Update: If DFU restores are giving you trouble, another route to pwned 2.0 for 1G owners is to use our first pwnage at 1.1.4. Once you are pwned there, you can do a normal recovery-mode restore to your custom 2.0 ipsw. BTW the iPhone does *not* need to be pre-pwned to be able to DFU-restore into a pwned ipsw — it needs to be pre-pwned only for normal recovery-mode restores of custom ipsw’s.

Update: Mail application not working at 2.0? Please restore to your custom ipsw (you don’t need to DFU restore if you are pwned, normal restore will work now too) but then select “Set up as a new iPhone� when iTunes asks. Your first sync will bring back all of your settings anyway.

Well the iPhone Dev Team has left another clue as to the release date of PwnageTool 2.0. This one is pretty easy to understand though:

We love Sundays. We think you will too.

Looks like we can expect to download PwnageTool 2.0 tomorrow Sunday July 20th.

This recent post was made on the iPhone Dev Team’s blog:

Boldog Születésnapot!

Boldog Születésnapot pytey! Most nem tudunk neked egy letölthető születésnapi ajandékot adni, de nagyon hamar az is megérkezik!

What language is that written in? What the hell does it mean? The language is Hungarian and some free online translation services will give you some pretty useless translations:

Happy birthday pytey! This time not tudunk for you one letölthető birthday ajandékot adni , but very soon the also fetch!

Someone posted in the comments on the blog that it translates as the the following:

Happy Birthday guys! Very Very soon we will have for you a downloadable birthday present for you, so hold on tight!

Luckily I happen to have a friend who knows some Hungarian and he confirmed the above translation with his own version:

Happy birthday right now i cant give you a download for your present, but it will get there soon

There we have it another wonderful coming soon message. Anymore coming soon messages and I think I’ll cry.

While everyone is eagerly anticipating the release of the upcoming iPhone 2.0 hacks. Here are some newly released videos to wet your appetite. One thing worthy of noting is that they do don’t use the installer to actually download and install an app as it is reported to not currently be working with the iPhone 2.0 firmware yet.

The iPhone 2.0 firmware has been released by Apple, you may now download it here. Remember that if you have an unlocked phone this firmware will relock your iPhone.

The good news is that screenshots have been released by the iPhone Dev Team showing an iPhone 2.0 that has been jailbroken. This hack is not public yet and no definitive word on unlocking yet.

There has been a lot of news circulating lately about all the juicy features in the iPhone v2.0 firmware and we are all very excited. But let’s not get too excited just yet, as with every other time there is a firmware update released by Apple those of us with unlocked iPhones need to wait or risk losing use of our iPhone. This is a warning to all of you out there thinking of trying out iPhone 2.0 on launch date, you will lose all your apps for sure. You will also most likely have your iPhone deactivated and jailed.

iPhone-Hacks.com’s advice is to wait, but we know some of you won’t. Luckily the iPhone hacking community is strong and solutions are already in the works. Zibris of ZiPhone fame is already working on a downgrader, here is what he has to say:

Well, here I am still…
The picture above is not a fake.
It’s not even a major breakthru but it’s something.
I am glad to tell you anyhow that 2.0
firmware works pretty well on my iPod 32gb.
All features are enabled.
To install it from windows (or mac) you need
a special beta version of itunes.
Unless you want to loose installer
and all third party apps I strongly suggest you
NOT TO UPGRADE (both iPod both iPhone).
To downgrade the iPod you will need
to uninstall iTunes 7.7 and reinstall 7.5.
Then you will need to put the iPod in DFU mode
and do a full restore back to 1.1.4 (and use ZiPhone)
to have back Installer and all goodies.
With the iPhone it’s more complicated
because you will also need to
downgrade the baseband.
I already have a very preliminary version
of the new ZiPhone which will allow that.

As of today you will have 2 choices:

1. Believe in the community and don’t upgrade to 2.0
2. Say goodbye to Installer and freedom and upgrade.

iCall is a newly announced app coming out on Apple’s App Store. It promises seamless call switching between VoIP via WiFi and regular calls. There will be no hacking involved, they are fully approved Apple developer. iCall has a two tier system with a free version and a ‘pro’ version with added features. iCall is their own service provider so don’t expect to use this application with any of your current VoIP plans like Vonage. It will be interesting to see how this will compare with other services competeing for the iPhone VoIP market. Like the previously released RingFree.

Here is their very short FAQ:

1. We are part of the Apple iPhone developer program. This is not an application for you naughty jail breakers ;-)
2. We are not using any undocumented API calls. We are following every rule that developers must follow.
3. No, you can not have a copy. We are not physically capable of distributing the application to any phones except our development phones. If Steve-ness himself wanted a copy we could not provide it to him. Sorry.
4. Apple has explicitly stated that VoIP is allowed, just not over Edge networks. Steve himself answered this question in the Q&A session after the last keynote speech.
5. We are huge Apple fans and plan to release a version of iCall for OS X, but we don’t have enough developers. (see question 6).
6. Yes we are hiring. Please visit our jobs page. We’ll even pay for you to move to Greenwich, CT.

A video of iCall in action:

People will no longer have to worry about their contact lists being booty called by strangers should they choose to sell their iPhone. Thanks to the upcoming iPhone 2.0’s new secure data removal tool you will be able to actually remove all that highly private personal data stored in the flash memory.

The new tool will not only erase the data, but then also proceed to write over the places in memory that were used ensuring that no one will be able to retrieve anything useful. The process will take approximately 1 hour for an 8GB iPhone and you will need to leave it charging during the process.

*Remember the current 1.1.4 data removal tool doesn’t do a very good job of deleting your data and leaves your data open to prying eyes should you sell it.