Okay, so i know i said iNdependence was the best way to jailbreak, activitate and unlock a 1.1.4 iPhone…but that was before.

 ZiPhone 2.5 is the new method on the block and it is fantastic!

 In literally 2 clicks, one to open ZiPhone and one to click the ‘Do It All!’ button and you will end up with an iPhone that is running 1.1.4, on the 04.04.05_G baseband which allows to to use the google maps location feature and has installer.app already installed within just 5 minutes.

It also downgrades the bootloader from 4.6 to 3.9. Many have said this is risky but in my personal experience (around 37 phones within the last week) i havent had a single problem.

 Great work everyone in the ZiPhone team and looking forward to future releases.

Due to this being an extremely easy method avaliable to both mac and pc I will write up a guide with the simple instructions and what things are good to install after its done (e.g. BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH etc.)

 Get ZiPhone 2.5 Windows or Mac and enjoy the freedom

 Have Fun!

If your lucky enough to be an OS X user (which most of us are!) you can now jailbreak, activate and unlock your 1.1.4 iPhone in just a few easy clicks with the newest version of the simple to use GUI iNdependence.

Unfortunately its only available if you are an OS X user but Windows method will be released very soon.

Congrats for releasing this so fast!

Get the latest version of iNdependence 1.4b5 and set your iPhone free!

Full guide to update to 1.1.4 and Australianise your iPhone will be available in tutorials within the next few days.

Gear Live have somehow (man I wish I knew how!) gotten their paws on some awesome 1.1.3 goodness. New features include:

• The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people is now there
• You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen
• Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation
• Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
• You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen

Once again however, the new firware not only busts the unlock, but also all known jailbreaking methods, once again Apple knocks down the hacking community, but it won’t be long until those awesome hacksters come back fighting (let’s all hope anyway). A big thanks to Apple for the new features, a not so big thanks for the broken unlock/jailbreak.

Via Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)

The internet is abuzz with talk of a new iPhone firmware 1.1.3, touting new features such as Voice Recording and Disk Mode, two features requested for since the initial annoucment of Steve Jobs’ and minimalistic design’s lovechild (the iPhone fool!). When it will arrive is a question of great debate but supposedly it will be in the very near future. Undoubtedly this will put Apple 1 up on the unlocking score board with some other ingenious way of blocking out the hacking geniuses of the iPhone world.

T3, the UK’s top gadget site, has reported that iPhone’s new firmware 1.1.2 will break the TIFF exploit used to jailbreak the iPhone 1.1.1. Apple can’t possibly think they will hold the hackers off for more than a couple of weeks at max (my moneys on 1 week, post your 2cents below though). Also if you’re reading this Apple Australia, when YOU release the iPhone, we wouldn’t mind getting our own review copy *crosses fingers even though we’ve got no hope!*