iPhone OS 3.1.3 Gets Pwned: Pwnage Tool v3.1.5 for Mac Available Now

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Just last week we told you that iPhone OS 3.1.3 was available to download but the new firmware didn’t bring anything worth mentioning. What it did do was to reveal the fact that Apple is working on a new iPod touch version. Not that we couldn’t have simply assumed that for ourselves without actually needing any kind of confirmation.

Today we’ll tell you that the iPhone Dev Team has cracked iPhone OS 3.1.3 even though users don’t really need to update their iPhone to version 3.1.3 since it only has minor updates to bring to the table. We’d rather get iPhone OS 4.0 but since that’s not available we could stick to version 3.1.2 for a longer while. Why update your firmware and then struggle to get the device jailbroken and unlocked again? Is it worth going through all that hassle knowing that in a few months a better firmware is going to arrive?

In case you do want to upgrade and you do want to jailbreak your device, although it’s not recommended to perform such tricks if you’re not comfortable dealing with the software, then you’ll be happy to know there’s a new Pwnage Tool version available. Naturally it’s the iPhone Dev Team that has already released v3.1.5 of their famous jailbreak tool.

The software is available to Mac OS X users only but it knows a neat trick: it allows you to preserve previous jailbreak and carrier unlock and still upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.3. In other words it looks like the Dev Team has figured out a way of making the whole upgrade & jailbreak/unlock process a lot easier.

Since I did tell you that the update will only bring you minor improvements and bug fixes I thought you might be interested to find out that just 14% of users have already upgraded to version 3.1.3. It might seem like a just a small fraction but that percentage translates into several million iPhone users that have already installed the new firmware in just about a week or so even if it doesn’t do them much good. Are you going to upgrade?