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The iPhone hackers, known as the Dev Team, has released Ultrasn0w a few minutes ago.

Ultrasn0w is a little program installed through Cydia or Icy (via jailbroken iPhones) which will unlock the iPhone 3G for use on any GSM network. It is the successor of the previous yellowsn0w which worked on previous basebands and firmwares. For the T-Mobile users, the carrier is happily supporting the iPhone since they make up quite a large user base.

Last week, the Dev Team released the iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak called redsn0w which will  probably be incorporated into QuickPwn 3.0 to make it more user friendly along with custom boot logos. QuickPwn.com is now concentrating on releasing QuickPwn before Friday this week (hopefully earlier). However,  the Dev Team and QuickPwn.com are not affiliated with each other.

To install Ultrasn0w:

1. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to cydia or icy
2. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
3. Reboot your iPhone 3G
4. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
5. Enjoy

As incomprehensible as it sounds, the Dev Team does not accept donations. “There is no paypal account associated to us, there is no way to donate to us, we do this as a hobby and don’t want to be paid and we fund all of this ourselves and it works out just fine.”

Remember kids, don’t upgrade to the next iPhone firmware without the OK from the Dev Team.

The iPhone OS isn’t set to be released until Wednesday, but the hackers at Dev-Team apparently already found a way to carrier unlock the new firmware.

This is the same team that released the PwnageTool and QuickPwn tools. The new Pwn tools are fully compatible with iTunes 8.2, but will be released directly after the new iPhone firmware. Luckily, the jailbreak continues to work on OS 3.0 for all devices previous to it.

“On Tuesday evening (just before the big Apple release) we’ll do a live demo of the yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware. The actual link for the feed will be twittered by @MuscleNerd and also placed here when the feed starts.  The demo should answer everything you need to know about the new yellowsn0w.  But it’s good news for iPhone 3G unlockers everywhere.”

For all of you with turbosims and unlocked phones, the best thing to do would be to wait a day or two to see that everything goes as planned for the Dev-Team, making sure there are no compatibility issues with the newer bootloaders and basebands.

*UPDATE*: MuscleNerd on the Dev Team released a video of the new iPhone 3G unlocking software ultrasn0w (previously named yellowsn0w) for OS 3.0. You can view the video below.