Apple enthusiast site 9to5Mac is reporting that the new iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch will be publicly available sometime between 9 - 12 of November 2010. They have received conflicting reports from two German based websites who are claiming to have received this information individually.
Back in June when iOS 4 was released, it had all sorts of performance issues on older devices such as iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G. Steve Jobs later confirmed that iOS 4.1 update will fix majority of these problems, but even that didn’t pleased everyone.
Chronic Dev Team have lived up to their promise! The source code for Limera1n-based GreenPois0n iOS 4.1 jailbreak tool is now available publicly for download. You can use the source code under the terms and conditions laid down by General Public License (GNU) to modify the tool to your own liking, or even improve it for the betterment of the jailbreaking community.
The iPhone developer and hacker behind Sn0wbreeze has confirmed that Cydia has started saving SHSH Blobs of iOS 4.2 betas for the next untethered jailbreak on the final version of iOS 4.2.
As we posted in our guide on how to jailbreak iOS 4.2 GM on iPhone 3GS; Cydia and a lot of jailbreaking apps are completely broken. Both Cydia and JB apps will, of course, eventually start working and if MuscleNerd’s tweet is anything to go by, hackers chpwn and saurik are burning the midnight oil to get it working as soon as possible.
There is a new jailbreak tweak available on Cydia which allows you to enable or disable iOS 4.x features without having to go though the pain of SSH’ing your device.
Just a few days ago, we posted a detailed step-by-step guide on how to enable HD video recording on iPhone 3GS. The entire process was - let’s just say - rather tedious. And I say tedious only because enabling HD video on 3GS now is as simple as installing a tweak.
Google Instant - the real-time search engine that gives you results before you even complete typing - is rolling out to iOS devices.
With iControl app for jailbroken iPhones, you can optimize battery life of your phone and do it so automatically.
The iPhone app, which CEO Zuckerberg says nearly every iOS device owner uses, gets updated Places support, Groups feature, including the ability to add photos to check-ins and better tagging.
