You may have caught our earlier report regarding the Firebreak jailbreak tweak, which allows those with jailbroken devices to access a hidden panoramic camera feature which didn't quite make the final cut of iOS 5.0.
In spite of the relatively successful iPhone 4S launch, it was not without its problems, and similar to the 'Antennagate' debacle of last year, there have been issues with the fundamental parts of the Apple's latest device.
We reported just last week of Apple's purchase of 3D mapping innovator C3 Technologies in an overt attempt to branch away from the dominant Google Maps - prevalent on pretty much every smartphone - including iOS.
We reported a couple of days back of Apple getting its comeuppance with rivals Motorola winning a preliminary injunction against the Cupertino company in Germany - threatening sales of iOS devices throughout Deutschland.
After seven betas, one GM and another performance improving update (which itself has two betas), iOS 5 hasn’t received an untethered jailbreak yet. Folks who wish to enhance their experience with apps and tweaks from Cydia have to make do with a tethered jailbreak, but it appears that the jailbreaking community is getting closer and closer to an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 as one hacker has sent out an update regarding its progress.
With the various reports of Apple's latest smartphone sapping battery life faster than a vacuum, the company's engineers are said to be scrambling for a fix.
Apple has been on an aggressive suing spree lately: they’ve sued companies like HTC and Samsung and have seen great success with the latter as sales of products like Galaxy Ace, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 have been banned in some countries in Europe.
Sn0wbreeze 2.8b10 has just been released to jailbreak iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1 (Beta 1 and Beta 2) on Windows. While the current version of Redsn0w, version 0.9.9b8 for Windows and Mac, can already jailbreak the above mentioned iOS updates, the added advantage of Sn0wbreeze is that it fixes iBooks crashing issue on devices running jailbroken iOS 5.0.x.
Apple is going rogue when it comes to beta releases; its been only two days since they released the first beta of iOS 5.0.1, and already, the second beta has been pushed out to developers. But, thankfully, it is jailbreakable using the existing version of Redsn0w.
Only days after seeding the first Beta of iOS 5.0.1 to developers, Apple today has dropped iOS 5.0.1 Beta 2 to the registered developers of iOS Dev Center.
