Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will start sales of Apple’s iPhone 3G handset at midnight tonight local time but users who buy the phones won’t get support for visual voicemail or access to videos and music sold on the iTunes Store.”On launch, customers will not be able to buy content from the iTunes store. However, they will be able to buy applications from the Apple application store,” SingTel said, adding that visual voicemail will not be offered in Singapore.
» Singapore getting the iPhone Tonight !

The iPhone-Dev Team updated their blog with a new blog-post. They announced a new version of QuickPwn that supports firmware 2.0.2. One big difference is that the tool now has the GUI (graphical user interface) wrapped by default. How does it work? Hit the read more link for more information.
» New QuickPwn now supports firmware 2.0.2

CMW announced on his weblog that he’s working on the  final of WinPwn 2.5. The best news of all is that it will be ready this week. CMW also announced some of the (new) features of the new WinPwn 2.5. Hit the read more link for features + screenshots.

Features

» WinPwn 2.5 coming this week!

Zibri is back lately. First he announced a new version of his Ziphone software and now he responds to the iPhone-Dev team QuickPwn release.

Let me tell you something about the columbus egg and quickpwn.
Quickpwn works exactly on the same principle of ZiPhone:it creates a ramdisk and executes it. In the crafted ramdisk a patcher modifies the OS for activation. It’s conceptually a good work (ZiPhone was indeed a good work).

» Ziphone update (Zibri speaks QuickPwn)

Nike+ has never been compatible with the iPhone untill this moment. Our friends from the blog iphone.fr have got their hands on some preliminary screenshots of the Nike+ iPhone application. Not much is known about the workings of the app, will it support the current dongle for the iPod Nano or will you have to buy a new module?
» Nike+ Coming to the iPhone

After some trail and error it appears that you can easily QuickPwn the newest firmware 2.0.2. To accomplish this all you have to do is upgrade to firmware 2.0.2 from within iTunes and then start the QuickPwn application. Make sure the firmware you have in the QuickPwn directory is firmware 2.0.1!
» QuickPwn let’s you jailbreak firmware 2.0.2

The newly released program QuickPwn, has been updated with a GUI made by “poorlad”. It also addresses a problem that iPod Touch users were having. Blog post and download link inside. » QuickPwn now has GUI

Well Apple has released the iPhone firmware update version 2.0.2. This update only includes bug fixes. This firmware version will not be compatible with PwnageTool or WinPwn; It is also not compatible with QuickPwn. Unless you really need the bug fixes, I would wait until the iPhone DevTeam sorts things out. » Apple releases iPhone update 2.0.2 *Updated*

For those of you that have been upset with Installer 4 recently, here is the new update. Read on for new features taken from rip-devs blog. » Installer 4.0b5 released

Apple has seeded the iPhone 2.1 firmware beta 4 to those four thousand lucky individuals. Apple has simply once again marked this as “bug fixes”. What is new is that Apple has removed the push notification service “for further development”. The push notification service has been included since the first beta release and is expected to have a public release in September.