On Sunday, George Hotz (aka “GeoHot”), the same iPhone hacker who worked on the original iPhone 3G jailbreak, released blackra1n, the first application to jailbreak the iPhone and iPod Touch since iPhone OS 3.0. (Jailbreaking a device allows the installation of 3rd party apps not from the App Store.) The jailbreak is compatible with all iPhone and iPod Touch models that have been released so far. The application for Windows or Mac OS X can be downloaded by going to blackra1n.com and clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
The main window of blackra1n for Windows.
Please note the current version of blackra1n does not unlock the iPhone (allow it to be used with another carrier). So far blackra1n is the only application available to jailbreak the most recent iPhone OS, although that might change when the Chronic Dev Team release their own jailbreak application, greenpo1son.
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