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The new iPhone was announced today. Here are some quick specs

$199 is 16GB version, $299 is 32GB version (Black or white) JUNE 19th

iPhone 3g $99 (8gb) RIGHT NOW

Highlights

3mp camera with autofocus, touch to switch to 30fps VGA resolution video recording. Built-in trimming options.

Digital compass: can be calibrated to always point to a destination

Battery: 3G got 6 on Wi-Fi, 7 on Video, 24 on Audio, 10 on 2G talk and 5 on 3G talk. 3gS gests 9 on Wi-Fi, 10 on video, 30 on audio, 12 on 2g talk and 5 on 3g talk.

Remote data wipe: in case you lose your phone

Voice Control: for calling and launching ipod songs and the ability to say 'play more songs like this' (sounds like a 'genius feature' itunes integration)

Speed increased: Launching messaging is 2.1x faster, loading SimCity is 2.4x faster, viewing Excel 3.6x faster, loading NY Times 2.9x faster.

Lowlights:

Same body and look as iPhone 3g

No MMS until later in summer

Looks like I'll be buying my next iPhone soon.

The Dev Team has posted the following information-

24Kpwn lives on, in the iPhone 3GS!
About 5 hours ago (Thursday evening, less than a week after the 3GS launch), we were able to verify that the 24Kpwn exploit that the hybrid team used on the iPod Touch 2G is still applicable to the bootrom of the iPhone 3GS. That means we can use the same sort of technique used by our current redsn0w tool to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS.

This is great news, but how did it happen? Why didn’t Apple fix this in their normal cat&mouse fashion? Well it seems this bootrom was cut in about the August 2008 timeframe, so the unintended early reveal of 24Kpwn earlier this year didn’t affect the iPhone 3GS.

For our technical notes on where the 24Kpwn exploit is in the 3GS, see here (pastebin hash of it is here). Our original blog post for when this exploit was first found is here.

And yes, ultrasn0w will be able to be used on the iPhone 3GS for you unlockers! (In fact, without any modifications whatsoever!)

Important: Apple has not given up on the cat&mouse game, and in fact there are challenging aspects of the 3GS jailbreak that aren’t in the other devices. It’ll take some time to safely work these into our tools, but the fundamental weaknesses are there: The bootrom is exploitable via 24Kpwn, and the baseband is exploitable via ultrasn0w. (And just like with the 3G, ultrasn0w for 3GS requires that you not update your baseband when Apple comes out with new firmware.