While everybody is busy enjoying the New year celebration, Apple iPhone owners who were using Unlocked versions of the device and mistakenly upgraded to iPhone Software 2.2 resulting in an bricked version which can't be downgraded are eagerly waiting for the promised software unlock by the iPhone Dev Team, to make things more interesting the Dev-Team posted this cryptic message on their blog leaving everybody guessing and trying to decode it:

2008?
01110110
01110100
01100001
01100010
01100101
01110010
00100000
00110110
00110001
00110000
00110110
00110000
00110001
00110111
00110100
00100000

Decoding this string to binary reveals vtaber 61060174 which in-turn converted to ROT13 translates to IGNORE (post #) 61060174, meaning ignore post 61060174 where they asked users not to upgrade to the iPhone version 2.2 as it can't be unlocked.

UPDATE # 1 : The Dev Team posted the following screenshot as a proof to show that the iPhone 3G with OS version 2.2 is unlocked, However, they have still not released the 3G software unlocker yet.

As the above screenshot demonstrate the soft-unlock will work on the latest baseband v 02.28.00 and will be installable via Cydia, meaning you will need to jailbreak iPhone 3G before you can get it unlocked.