Apple has a knack for supporting one-generation-old devices, mainly because they focus more on the end user-experience rather than forcing people to go for new hardware, which by the way is, not entirely true. Sticking true to their laurels, Apple has - moments ago - silently pushed out a small update for the GSM version of iPhone 4 only.
With the release of the shiny new untether for 5.1.1, there are now a lot more jailbroken iOS devices just waiting to be modified and enhanced through the installation of various Cydia packages. With the Cydia store being so vast and containing thousands and thousands of offerings, it can often be difficult for inexperienced users to find what they are looking for.
With the official Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak tool being released today, users who had been waiting to jailbreak their iOS 5.1.1 devices are free to go ahead and do so and enjoy all the untethered goodness which awaits them. However, amidst all the excitement and chaos of the official jailbreak release, the Chronic Dev Team haven't forgotten about those users who have been benefitting from a tethered jailbreak over the last few weeks.
We are once again sitting right in the middle of that beautiful time period when updated jailbreaking tools are available, which allow us to free our iOS devices from their technical shackles. For those who have been sitting with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Apple's iOS 5.1.1 firmware, you will no doubt be aware that after weeks of hard work and research, Pod2g and his team have released an untethered jailbreak for all existing iOS devices, excluding the third-generation Apple TV.
In what comes off as a rather unusual and quirky move, Facebook has just released Facebook Camera for iOS. Aptly named, the app is essentially a standalone app that lets you manage and post photos on the social networking service. There's more to it than that, though; the service also offers 14 filters for you to "decorate" your photos with. In many ways, the app offers functionality that's very similar to that one prominent photo-sharing company they acquired last month for $1 billion. Now, I proceed, I just want to give Facebook credit for creating such a pleasantly-designed app; coming from a company that's notorious for terrible mobile apps, this is quite something.
Grand Theft Auto is a classic title, and when Rockstar Games released a 10th Anniversary Edition of GTA III for iOS (and subsequently Android), mobile games far and wide felt the nostalgia crawling back. The title, which has taken a great amount of flak over the years for its often unnecessary degrees of violence, has enjoyed a warm welcome into the mobile arena, and the port, which is almost identical to the PC version from over a decade ago, plays rather nicely with the touch controls.
Well, it didn't take them long, did it? In what's been an astronomically busy couple of weeks for Mark Zuckerberg's now company that is Facebook, it has now taken the wraps off its camera app, which gives the recently acquired Instagram a run for its money.
MuscleNerd is one of the most prominent members of the jailbreak community, and his vast knowledge has helped the iPhone Dev Team continue to update and improve its Redsn0w utility in the progressive cat and mouse battle. Apart from jailbreaking, MuscleNerd and other Dev Team members continue to dabble in the unlocking game as well, and with the Cupertino's sought-after device mostly sold subsidized - i.e. locked under a contractual agreement with a carrier - there are plenty of iPhone users on the lookout for an unlock.
In terms of technology giants and famous names from the web of old, they don't really come any bigger or more well-known that Yahoo!. Once upon a time, the company was pretty much at the forefront of everything that happened, and at that time when the internet was growing and becoming an emerging tool. However, in more recent times, the company has fallen behind its competitors such as Google and has been plagued by behind the scenes corporate issues.
Those who are familiar with the world of jailbreaking will no doubt know that the next couple of days represents a great time for the community, with Pod2g and his band of merry men almost ready to push the button and release their iOS 5.1.1 untether jailbreak, which will liberate all devices capable of running the latest firmware, with the exclusion of the third-generation Apple TV. Whether you believe in coincidence or not, the main players in the production of the jailbreak all happen to be under one roof at the Hack In The Box security conference (HITBSecConf) in Amsterdam.
