Can’t wait for the iPhone Dev Team to update their tools for the iPhone 3GS? Well, George Hotz (aka Geohot) has released a very simple application called purplera1n to jailbreak your iPhone 3G S! Both Mac OS X and the Windows application have very similar interfaces so this tutorial will work for both operating systems (Windows is being used in this tutorial). Before we begin, some important notes worth mentioning:

• This one is only for iPhone 3GS users. iPhone and iPhone 3G users use this tutorial
• Make sure you’re running firmware 3.0 (If you’re not sure then you most likely do have iPhone OS 3.0)
• Jailbreak apps like WinterBoard, VOiPOver3G etc don’t seem to be working on iPhone 3GS, so you might have to wait for the developers to release updated version of the jailbreak apps
• Use at your own risk. Please pre-read before attempting anything so you know what you’re getting yourself into ahead of time.

Lets begin:
1. Download purplera1n HERE – for Mac OS X or HERE – for Windows
2. Once you have it downloaded, double click the .exe that you downloaded (if on Windows). If on Mac OS X double click the .zip and it should unzip and then double click the purplera1n.app icon to launch the application.

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