Dev Team Show Off World’s First Jailbroken iPhone 3G

by Eric March on July 15, 2008 at 6:50 pm

We were all expecting it of course, but nobody has been sure when we’d see the first signs of it. Fortunately for us, the Dev Team have shown off a bona fide jailbreak on the iPhone 3G (and by extension, any device running firmware 2.0).

Don’t get too excited just yet though. It’s not yet ready for prime time; as the Dev Team have said, they are putting it through some extensive testing to make sure that it doesn’t end up bricking anyone’s device, especially in light of the various bugs and issues that some 3G owners have been reporting their devices experiencing.

Nevertheless, the video, seen below, demonstrates that your gleaming new iPhone 3G (or your not-quite-so-gleaming first-gen iPhone or iPod Touch running firmware 2.0) will soon sport that familiar Installer icon that you’ve come to know and love. Of course, there are almost certainly going to be a lot of apps that are incompatible with the new firmware, so we’re in for an all new season of Dead App Hunter while we wait for toolchain devs to update their software for 2.0 functionality.

In the mean time, please enjoy this moving picture.