Unfortunately, Cydia still doesn’t support the native multitasking / backgrounding feature which Apple introduced with iOS 4.x last year. What this means is that Cydia updates are installed whenever you start the app, followed by those annoying “Reloading Data” screens.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, a Chinese carrier named China Telecom has managed to unlock the CDMA based Verizon iPhone to run on their CDMA network.
Even though Apple didn’t attend MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2011, but Apple’s iPhone 4 took the top honors among all the smartphones when it was awarded “Best Mobile Device” award at the Global Mobile Awards ceremony.
We informed you yesterday how Apple's iBooks app refused to open digital books loaded with DRM if the device was jailbroken. Comex discovered that the app was checking if the operating system allowed it to execute an unsigned binary, and if it did, the book wouldn't open. Now both PwnageTool 4.2 and Sn0wbreeze 2.2 have been updated to include a fix, but what if you're already jailbroken using Redsn0w 0.9.6, 0.9.7 or GreenPois0n? Now thanks to a simple fix available on Cydia, you can now easily fix iBooks from the device itself.
Earlier today, we published a report about some of the details of iPhone 5 leaked straight from the component suppliers of iPhone. Surprisingly, based on the report, the Apple's new iPhone will feature a 4-inch display which will help Apple compete in display size with the counterpart Android sets.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released official version of PwnageTool 4.2 which incorporates the new kernel based exploit of GreenPois0n for creating full untethered iOS 4.2.1 custom firmware files. Almost all iOS devices are supported except for iPod touch 2G.
It seems getting FaceTime to work on the current iPad is all the rage these days, but up until now it's not been the easiest thing to do. But now thanks to iFacePad, the whole process is down to just a few downloads and a couple of mouse-clicks. You'll be chatting in no-time!
Screenshots of the upcoming Sn0wbreeze 2.2 for Windows has been teased yet again. In case you don’t already know, Sn0wbreeze for Windows is an alternative to PwnageTool for Mac which allows you to create custom firmware files which are jailbroken, untethered, and without the upgraded baseband.
We tend to take rumors from Taiwanese blogs with a pinch of salt here at Redmond Pie, but this one caught our eye courtesy of AppleInsider. The report, from tw.apple.pro claims that Apple is currently working on not one, not two, but three iPhone 5 prototypes. What's more, it's rumored that one of these handsets possesses a slide-out hardware keyboard.
Free access to The Daily for iPad has been extended to February 28th, beyond its original two-week trial period which expires today. Could this mean that Apple will release iOS 4.3 on 28th of this month?
