New iPhone Firmware Out, Hacked iPhones Being Disabled?

Apple warned us this might happen. Might, apparently, has become fact, based on early reports surfacing from iPhone owners and gadget blogs. The newly released iPhone 1.1.1 firmware is apparently wreaking havoc with iPhones that are running third-party applications or were unlocked and using a non-AT&T SIM card.

WirelessInfo's Richard Baguley reports that his unlocked iPhone (which was also running third-party apps) is currently useless after having run through the update, even though he has the original AT&T SIM in the phone. I'll update this blog as I see more reports hit the Web.

If you've already hacked your iPhone, I'd suggest taking a wait-and- see approach with regard to this latest update. No sense in further risking the health of your device unnecessarily, when you can gain from the collective knowledgebase of iPhone users. Furthermore, the iPhone Dev Team issued a statement earlier this week, promising that it would have an iPhone restoration tool available for download next week. That tool could be the salvation for the estimated hundreds of thousands of users who've downloaded and implemented unlock schemes.