With nothing more than tweets to let the world know what’s going on, the iPhone 4 has just officially been unlocked by @planetbeing. He also used the next userland jailbreak by @comex to jailbreak his iPhone 4. All of this stuff is happening a lot faster than usual, so the release is getting closer.

First, the jailbreak. This is the userland jaiblreak by @comex. Here’s the original tweet from @musclenerd that got it all started:

Congrats to @comex for another userland JB http://is.gd/d5N6I <– hi-res Cydia via @planetbeing & @chpwn iPhone4s

The above is a screenshot taken from an iPhone 4 at full resolution.

What you see above is a “obligatory full root shell screenshot on iPhone4″. This isn’t very important to us end-users, but to hackers, this is golden. Here’s the original tweet from @musclenerd:

Obligatory full root shell screenshot on iPhone4: http://is.gd/d60iY Thanks to new @comex userland JB

With all of this jailbreak news, it should be release anytime between now and the middle of August.

Now onto the unlock. The above image is of @planetbeing‘s iPhone 4 running on Canada’s Bell network. As with the other images, here’s the tweet:

My soft-unlocked iPhone 4 (in Canada). I’ll have video in a couple of hours once I can top-up the SIM.http://twitpic.com/24ycdv

Here’s another tweet of his showing Cydia on his iPhone 4:

Doh, Cydia was on the first page of apps! Here’s another shot with it open. http://twitpic.com/24yhf7

So, with all of this jailbreak and unlocking news going on, it sounds like @geohot is quitting the scene, according to his abnormal barrage of tweets last night: It turns out he removed his account, so we can’t post his tweets. He ended up closing his blog to the public, where only certain people can be invited to it. Maybe he has something big planned? Maybe he really is quitting? Who knows, but it seems like the iPhone Dev team, along with @comex, @planetbeing, and @chpwn are getting it done.

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