Looks like this new years treat will be even better then expected with the yellowsn0w offering an unlock for the 02.08.00 baseband as well

Dev Team Updates:

Update 3: Now to explain the above screenshot. *The soft unlock has undergone many changes in the last two days. *The most significant one: the soft unlock will now be*only for baseband 02.28.00 (the most recent baseband). *Yes we?ve been advising everyone to avoid updating their basebands, and in general that will always be the best policy. *Not every baseband version is guaranteed to have a hole through which we can inject the unlock.

Update 4: (a) The yellowsn0w Cydia package will be available as soon as our devteam member in charge of the repo wakes up to fix a file permission error. (b) Once it?s out, those users with SIMs that have apps and other menus on them will need to do that extra step we?ve been talking about. *They?ll need to pull and reinsert the SIM once after rebooting the phone to engage the unlock. *Even though it?s needed only once per boot, it?s still a nuisance and we?ll be fixing that ASAP. *(c) You?ll know if you fall into that ?extra step? category if your carrier doesn?t show up within about 10 seconds of the slide to unlock screen. *(d) Yes it really is for baseband 02.28.00. *That means everyone can use it now!*(e) Happy New Year!

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Wonderful news!

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Can general members post in the frontpage blog/latest headlines forums? I never see anyone here.

EDIT: oh, wait, there's a couple

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