Chances are, if you're a brave soul you're rocking iOS 5 on your iPhone. Chances are if you're a REALLY brave soul, you're rocking a jailbroken iPhone with iOS 5 installed. If that's the case, what's the best way to take advantage of the new widget-y power of the new iOS 5 beta while leveraging the ability to run unsigned code from Cydia? How about a fancy new way to mange multitasking apps? Sounds good right?
Last Friday, we reported on Redsn0w 0.9.8, a new version of the well-known jailbreaking tool that supports iOS 5. Now, there's a Windows version too!
One thing US iPhone users have always wanted to do has been unlocking their phones, especially since unlocked phones have been available in other countries for a while. If a Twitter source is to be believed, the wait will soon be over, as US Apple Stores might be getting unlocked iPhone 4's in just 3 days.
It’s no secret that a lot of of the new features announced in iOS 5 seem to be taken straight out of competing mobile operating systems like Android, BlackBerry OS and, of course, Windows Phone 7.
If you've been using a jailbroken iOS device for a while, you're probably familiar with SBSettings, an iOS tweak that lets users access basic settings without having to access System Preferences. While that tweak still works, now there's UISettings, simpler and easier-to-use mod that integrates right into iOS 5's new Notifications Center.
One of the most requested features for an upcoming version of iOS was always widgets. People with iPhones have always looked at their Android friends with all their various widgets and thought - 'why can't we have those?' - we've all done it.
A feature that many iOS users wished for (and finally had their wishes heard on Monday) was wireless sync, which was introduced at last in iOS 5, on Monday. It has now surfaced that Apple essentially ripped off the idea from a UK-based University graduate, who released a similar app on Cydia last year.
Gevey SIM is a hardware-based unlocking method for iPhone 4 which works with most basebands. Today, we received a tip from a reader who has tested Gevey SIM on iOS 5… and it works!
If you use FaceTime often, you're probably familiar with how frustrating it is to have to get on a Wi-Fi network in order to use the service. According to reports, that's not the case with iOS 5 beta, which also allows FaceTime over 3G.
If you're a regular reader of this site, you're probably aware of iOS 5, Apple's newest release of iOS, currently in beta form. Reviewer Steven Chi, member of the Redmond Pie family, got his hands on iOS 5 and has put together a video showcasing iMessage, one of the major new features in iOS 5. Overall, it went pretty smoothly.
