As we reported earlier, both PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac and Sn0wbreeze 2.2 for Windows are now available which can preserve baseband, and jailbreak iPhone, iPad and iPod touch on iOS 4.2.1 firmware.
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 appears some people have been experiencing issues when trying to run Apple's iBooks app on jailbroken devices, specifically the ones done via recently released GreenPois0n. Today though, iOS hacking king Comex tweeted that he has discovered the reason for the crash, and can now start to implement a fix.
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.
The press-shots that we posted about yesterday? Yes they were real, as announced today by HTC at Mobile World Congress. The two phones namely, HTC Chacha and HTC Salsa have dedicated Facebook button, with a more customized Sense UI running on Android 2.4 to have more focus on the world’s largest social network.
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.
We told you recently how HTC has at least one handset in the pipeline that will feature a dedicated Facebook button to take users straight into the social network. Now according to PocketNow, we can expect two such handsets, and there are new press photos to prove it!
Gemalto, a firm known for digital security, has released it's SIM card which allows all the GSM phones to have a built-in Facebook. This allows all phones with minimal features to have access to Facebook, an effort to make the social network a standard on GSM. It is obvious that SIM based client won't provide as much features as clients on smartphones do but it will provide you text based menus which will let you carry out basic tasks like status updates, pokes, friend requests, wall posts etc
Sources close to CultofMac has informed them that the smaller iPhone, which Apple is rumored to be working on will eliminate the need of internal storage, and will instead rely on cloud-based content.
