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13 Year old developer AriX has just released version 0.6 of iJailbreak. This amazing and simple app automates the process of jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch. iJailbreak is a free download and makes jailbreaking your iPhone and now iPod Touch as easy as clicking a few buttons. 0.6, the latest release of iJailbreak has full support for the 1.1.4 firmware and allows you to “freely enable the $20 iPhone apps.”

I talked to Ben Feldman, the co-developer last night and he told me that even though the iPhone SDK is out, he still recommends jailbreaking your phone. iJailbreak is a free download, however they will gladly accept donations.

Via [iJailbreak]

Tools like iJailbreak and TurboSIM have made it very easy to unlock your iPhone and enable you to use it in countries that Apple doesn’t supported. Confirmation has been made that 800,000 to 1 million iPhones, or about one-fourth of all iPhones old have been unlocked in countries outside of Apple’s carrier countries. Even though Apple restricts the number of iPhones a single person may buy, people have found ways around this rule. BusinessWeek recently reported:

“one reseller “got a friend to print business cards and pose as a small business owner so as to dupe an Apple Store manager into letting him buy 100 iPhones.”

The iPhone Dev team always works hard to unlock the latest firmware, but Apple keeps breaking the hacks and the iPhone team fights back. Apple is also losing money on every unlocked iPhone, as they earn a portion of the revenue for each iPhone on AT&T network. If Apple does not put an end to this unlocking, reaching the goal of 10 million iPhone customers by the end of 2008 will be reasonably harder.

Via [MacNN]

Cory Bohon at TUAW has found footage on YouTube of what seems to be an iPhone with software version 1.1.3 - but jailbroken. As posted earlier - we are getting closer and closer to a 1.1.3 jailbreak. It will happen, and hopefully soon. I’m still not going to risk putting this on my iPod Touch when it comes out - until Apple releases their SDK - which could be equally as good, if not better than the jailbreak itself. iPhone Atlas is reporting that the jailbreak requires a hardware modification of some sort - which indicates the process probably isn’t as easy as previous jailbreaks, where you could simply use an app like iJailbreak. See the video here.

Via [TUAW]