I bought an iPhone 2G off Ebay a couple months ago for about $100 and downgraded it to iPhone OS 1.0. At one point I thought I had bricked it. But after playing with it for a few days, the novelty ...

Navigate to the Settings pane in the iPhone emulator included with the iPhone SDK released yesterday and you'll notice something interesting: the OS version listed is 1.2 (5A147p).

Now Martijn de Vos, also known as devos50, has shown the progress he has made with this emulator, which now runs iPhone OS 2.1. iPhone OS 2 emulated with QEMU. As shown by the developer on X ...

Despite a few bugs, the final project seems quite functional, and iPhone OS 1.0 has been successfully emulated with QEMU – an open source virtualization platform.