Yup, the big day finally arrives. WWDC is tomorrow (US) which means Malaysians can expect a flurry of news about cool Apple stuff on Tuesday morning (there goes work). The good news is of course there will probably (that’s 99% probability) be a new iPhone announced, packing all the stuff the current one lacks such as 3G and GPS. It’s also thinner, smaller and lighter.

Now the bad news. It’s locked. Hard. No more unlocks. But of course, hackers being hackers, I expect a couple of hundred of extremely talented and dedicated folks to purchase phones just to find away to get root access So until then, I’m gonna reserve judgement about it being impossible to unlock.

Second bad news; jail breaking hack has also been taken away. Not surprised though. I bet Apple allowed jailbreaking on purpose just to test the waters for 3rd party applications, or get the SDK ready, or just to work around a bad deal with the providers there. Whatever. Since the SDK is readily available now, no reason to leave the jail breaking hack around. What remains to be seen is if the many available freewares (really, I’m surprised at the abundance of free software for the iPhone, reminds me of PalmOS in the earlier days) will be available through other means (the rumoured iPhone software store for iTunes?).

Nevertheless, the iPhone 2.0 (that’s not its real name btw) is highly anticipated and it’s not hard to see why.