Jailbreakers Begin Work on iPhone OS 3.0; OS is "Breakable"

With the announcement of the iPhone OS 3.0 on Tuesday came the obvious question for many: can the new OS be jailbroken?

Since developers could grab a beta version of the SDK right away, the iPhone Dev-Team jumped right on it and has already stated in a blog post that indeed the iPhone OS 3.0 can be jailbroken.

However, they warned that those using the yellowsn0w software unlock to unlock your iPhone for any carrier need to hold off on trying to update to 3.0 as that will modify the baseband radio and destroy the ability for yellowsn0w to unlock the phone.

I know of at least one person who was considering jailbreaking his iPhone prior to the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, mostly because of missing apps. Of course, the new OS didn't add all those apps that are missing, but it filled in many gaps.

On the other hand, there are still a significant number of applications that are only available for jailbroken phones. So for those interested in access to those apps, this is great news. Of course, you can expect some period of time after the iPhone OS 3.0 launches before a successful jailbreak occurs.