Pwnage 2.0 Tool has official been released by the iPhone Dev Team!

This release unlocks and Jailbreaks all Gen I iPhone's for the new 2.0 firmware. For those of you with new 3G's, it will Jailbreak but not unlock it. Unfortunately this version is only for OS X, we're all still waiting on the windows version..

For those of you who wouldn't consider yourself an expert and want to know what all of this hype is about, read on..

                                        iPhoneChat are giving away four DLO Slimcases!

To celebrate the release of the new iPhone 3G in Australia, iPhoneChat.com.au are giving away 4 iPhone cases over the next 4  months to go with your new 3G iPhone.

One winner will be drawn at random on the last day of each month - First one     being this coming 31st of July.

With less than 400 members your chances of winning this great prize are pretty good!

Members - All you have to do to enter the draw is fill out the competition entry form here (Must be logged in).

Good Luck, winners will be notified by email on the 1st day of the next 4 months. 

Obviously the phone isn't included.

The iPhone finally went on sale this morning, after years of anticipation, consumers were lining up for hours to get their eager hands on one. The wait is now over, for some.

To those of you who haven't got one yet, your chances are pretty slim for the moment, get down to your nearest store and see if there's any left, or, try vodafone's website , they're selling them online! 

The Apple store in Sydney started to produce a line yesterday afternoon, even though they had never announced they would be reselling the phone, but guess what, come thismorning they announced they were.

Appstore and Mobile me are now in full swing.

To all of you already with Gen I iPhones, Firmware 2.0 is already unlocked and jailbroken! see the article here.

At the moment the Black iPhone is much more popular than the white, standing at 80:20.

iFixit have a cool article on Dissecting the iPhone 3G, they promised they'd be the first to pull it apart, see it here.

More to come shortly... 

The wait is over, it is the eve of the official iPhone 3G release in Australia.

Tomorrow stores accross the country will be flooding with those eager to get their hands on one.

Unfortunately not everyone's going to go home with a smile on their face.

For those who put their $100 deposit down i think your pretty safe, but make sure you get there before midday.

For the rest of you, it's simply first in best dressed. I would suggest ringing around your local stores and finding out which one opens first, Optus, Vodafone and Telstra, all opening at different times, depending on the individual store (most at 6am) and get there early because there will be que's

Optus have a handy tool on their site, where you can punch in your postcode here.

For detailed Telstra plans which are apparantly leaked, read on.

Yesterday's leaked vodafone prices are now confirmed as accurate, and we can all see Optus' plans here.

Good luck!

Well, kind of leaked.

This morning on Vodafones Website, the prices showed up temporarily for about 5 minutes. Luckily some people got a screengrab before Vodafone took them back down again. Whether these will be the true prices on Friday, no-one knows for sure, there was obviously a reason for the prices being ripped back off the site, Or was the whole thing intentional?

The prices don't seem as good as what Optus has put on offer. They start from $189/$309 upfront on a $69 cap. Obviously the big business plan is offering the phone upfront for free but you'll have to pay $169 per month.

Read on further to see the screengrabs and full pricing info .

Due to the massive popularity of the vWallpaper app, iPhonechat has added a vWallpapers download page.

For those of you who dont know, vWallpaper is a great looking application made by the good people over at i.danstaface.net. The application lets you have video's as your springboard wallpaper. (kind of like a moving background). You must have vWallpaper installed, and therefore at the moment; have a jailbroken iPhone, all you have to do is add i.danstaface.net to your sources.

at the moment we've only got 6 packs up, if we're missing some of your favourites, then send them in!

Here is a snippet from this months Strathfield Catalogue, a very familiar looking shaded out image appears in the mobile phone section of the catalogue.

Seems quite obvious but what reason would they have for not revealing it?

Strathfield is currently an Optus Premium Reseller. On the 3rd of July Optus announced its pricing details for pre-paid and post-paid customers, they can be seen here . 

Going to strathfield.com.au initially reveals nothing more, until you type iPhone in the site search box; it results in an iPhone Countdown, which looks like getting to 0 on July 11th, our release day.

See the countdown here  

See the full catalogue here 

 
Discuss Here

So far we know that three mobile carriers will be providing the iPhone, these being - Optus, Vodafone and Telstra.

Telstra and Optus have released pricing info, still waiting on Vodafone, which should come to light this week, or may even on release day - 11th July.

Telstra have announced on a $30 plan, the 8gb is available for $279 and the 16gb for $399. To get the 8gb with no upfront costs you'll need to sign up for an $80 per month plan, or a $100 plan for a 16gb.

Optus announced the iPhone will be available for pre-paid and on a contract, the 8gb for $729 and the 16gb at $849. There's alot of info on the iPhone with a plan, see the full doco here .

We are assuming Vodafone will also provide the iPhone for its pre-paid customers. Still no word from Virgin or 3. 

See Optus pre-paid costs here , or on a plan here

Telstra's pricing info here

Or register your interest with

• Vodafone here
• Telstra here
• Optus here
• or 3 here

  Discuss Here

Today Telstra released this statement on the iPhone release and its prices.

Telstra is the only carrier of the three in Australia (Vodafone and Optus) to release its pricing so far.

iPhone enthusiasts of Australia we're left wondering whether telstra was going provide the iPhone 3g, after Vodafones and Optus' statements earlier this year.

Deals start from $279 on a $30 per month contract for an 8gb model or 399 for a 16gb. Alternatively, they can receive the 8gb model for free on an $80 plan.

See it on their site here

Official release date for the iPhone in Australia is July 11th.

Its that time we've all been waiting for, official release date for the iPhone in Australia is July 11th.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, last night told 52 000 people at the WWDC in San Francisco.

The attractive new 3G iPhone will, as expected, be a worldwide release next month, sporting some great new features, and be half the price!

Heres the breakdown:

1. It will be a 3g and Next G model: supporting UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

2. Will feature various enterprise support tools: some of which include exchange support, wireless syncing, remote wipe etc

3. It will have GPS: Leaked info has alread told us this works like a gem.

4. It will initially be released to Vodafone and Optus here in Australia

5. It is 20% smaller that the current model, and will be available in black or white.

6. It will be half the price of the current model: Expecting to go for between $AUD150 - $AUD350

7. It will have the new firmware 2.0 on it: Including the talked about Appstore where developers can sell applications, apple taking a %30 cut.

8. It has an improved battery life, of up to 5 hours 3g talk time

9. It will be activated in store when purchased.

10. The headphones will be flush with the device, and will work with any headphones, not just the expensive apple ones!

11. A new application called MobileMe will be released, used for syncing with PC or Mac, with web broswer support

Thats the majority of the main points, see the TV ad for it here.

More info on the Austrlian 3g iPhone at the Apple website here

iPhone on the optus website here.

See more info on mobile me here.

Things which weren't answered:

1. Will the phone be unlocked? or locked to vodafone and/or optus?
2. Is there a front camera?
3. Is the back camera improved or does it now support Video?

Discuss Here 

This morning, Australian news website News.com.au reported on some facts about the iPhone's release down under, and the hype surrounding it:

the article refers to that photo below which an anonymous apple retailer sent to Mactalk.com.au, News.com.au also revealing that a similar photo was sent from an apple retailer in London.

Also mentioned in the article:

• Will it be a 3g model?
• Will it include GPS?
• Possible prices and carriers
• Better camera quality and maybe a second camera for video calls.

See the full article here  

Tomorrow morning is the much anticipated WWDC where Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be announcing a new and exciting product, hmmm. Stay tuned.

You decide..

Mactalk.com.au are reporting to have recieved this photo from a reliable source here in Australia.

The photo is of a box, with the apple logo, stating not to be opened until the 10th of June. Could this be it?

It would co-oncide well with a June release as previously discussed, but why the 10th? Maybe on display for a few weeks? 

Remembering the WWDC and the new Sydney store opening are all on in the next fortnight. 

Not that it was a race..

But it was announced today that the Telco would carry the iPhone in Australia later this year. After speculation for more than a year, it is now official that vodafone will have strong ties with apple.

Russell Hewitt, chief executive officer for Vodafone Australia, released a statement shortly after the announcement.

“Vodafone Australia is enormously pleased to be included in the agreement to sell the iPhone to our customers later this year," he said.

“The iPhone will be the perfect addition to Vodafone Australia’s mobile handset range. The iPhone’s Australian launch is well-timed to coincide with our plans to deliver an enhanced mobile internet and entertainment experience to customers."

Don't be worried though, this doesn't mean Vodafone will be the only carrier, only that they will be one.

Read more from news.com.au here , or read the statement from Vodafone here . 

Discuss Here

Engadget have posted a picture and information they have sourced on a second generation iPhone.

Sourced from engadget.com: 

A trusted source got a chance to check one out, here's what we've heard.

• The first thing people will notice: the 2nd gen iPhone will be about the same size and shape as the first gen.
• It will, of course, have 3G. And proper GPS!
• The most noticeable physical difference is back of the phone is no longer metal -- the whole thing is glossy black, from top to bottom. The volume buttons are now chrome.
• Because it's got a little less metal to deal with, it doesn't have quite as many angular edges. The battery is (still) not removable.
• The phone itself will be slightly thicker than the first gen device.
• The headphone jack will no longer be recessed, and will finally be flush with the body.
• The device itself uses roughly the same size and resolution screen as the first generation product.
• No solid word on battery life or storage capacity.

Finally, a version windows users can work with. Pwnage, the newly created, popular tool for jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones, aswell as loading custom firmware has been very popular since its OSX version release.

Winpwn comes with a few limitations and several warnings in this first beta release.  The first and most clear warning is:

WARNING THIS IS ONLY FOR BETA TESTERS AND COULD CAUSE YOU TO RESTORE YOUR IPHONE/ITOUCH LOSING DATA

We're hoping in the next few days, a version 1 will be released with the limitations fixed. 

 Discuss Here

Well its so close to being official i thought i'd put it in the title. Its the news we've all been waiting for.

Very strong sources are saying that the iPhone will be released in Australia on the 29th of June.

This comes after years of anticipation and speculation over its entry into Australia after its hugely successful launch in the US.

Apple resellers are saying that only early this week they have been in meetings surrounding confidential information regarding its roll out and conditions. One word that clearly stood out was UNLOCKED.

With the iPhone not being locked to one particular network, this would make sense that it will be a 3G model released (As Telstra is the only network providing EDGE data transfer).

After learning that stats in the US are creaping up to nearly half of the phones unnaccounted for (unlocked), Apple may have reconsidered this in Australia.

It still hasn't come from Steve Jobs mouth, but from what I have learned today, i can say this is as close as we've seen so far... Exciting.

Discuss Here  

Discuss Here

• It is dubbed version 2.0 by Apple, but currently 1.2
• Has an App store where developers can sell apps, apple taking a 30% cut
• App store requires wifi
• Exchange support with push email, contacts and calendar
• WPA 2 wireless support
• Cisco VPN support
• Remote Deactivation and or wiping
• Full screen safari
• Bonjour - Like bluetooth for connecting to other phones

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Whats better is you can now view the RSS feeds on your iPhone, in an iPhone optimised view.

Whats even better than that is you don't need any third party app to do it, you can do it all from safari.

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