After a couple of months anxiously waiting, the very first iOS 5 untethered jailbreak arrived in a blaze of glory just two day ago, and techies far and wide running Apple’s latest mobile OS duly obliged to the calling of the iPhone Dev Team’s ever-reliable utility.
Since the public release of iOS 5 in October, a number of tweaks have appeared on Cydia which offer the ability to hook into iOS 5-only functions, with the most popular by far being the the new Notification Center. I can only assume most developers have been literally chomping at the bit to put their skills to the test in order to see what they can do with the new Siri technology.
The jailbreak community is well known not only for innovation and the production of tweaks which enhance iOS devices, but also for the wealth of development talent which exists in and around the community. Ask any regular jailbreaker and I would put money on the fact that they could confidently name at least a handful of developers who produce the tweaks that we find within Cydia.
With the untethered jailbreak now available to iOS 5 users, Cydia enthusiasts will now be frantically clogging their devices with various tweaks from Saurik’s App Store alternative.
Well known and respected developer chpwn has finally released first legal Siri port to public for older generation iOS devices. Dubbed as Spire, the port allows iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G/3G and first-gen iPad users, jailbroken on iOS 5, to run Siri, which has official been available only for iPhone 4S users.
Another day, another jailbreak related tweet sends the world into chaotic meltdown. I have to be honest, I am finding it difficult to keep up with who is working on what, and who is working in collaboration with who.
Pod2g has been letting his fingers do the talking again, this time updating his official blog to let his followers know the direction he is taking in regards to his eagerly anticipated iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. First of all some background incase any of our readers stumble upon this article by chance or have missed previous reports relating to this.
Blog posts have been flying around the internet for the last few days since the release of Redsn0w 0.9.9b9 which included a footnote advising users the newest iteration of the Ultrasn0w unlock (version 1.2.5) would be released this coming Monday via the official repository in Cydia.
We are at a crucial time in the jailbreaking community. I call this the edge of our seats situation where all eyes rest on one person, or one development team waiting for the crucial breakthrough to be made in providing a stable, distributable jailbreak. In October 2010 the communities eyes focused solely on the Chronic Dev Team as they prepared us for the release of the GreenPPois0n tool, then without warning George Hotz (a.k.a. Geohot) pipped them to the post with the last minute release of Limera1n.
iOS developer and discoverer of exploits pod2g has updated jailbreaking enthusiasts on the latest status of his untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S. Details after the jump!
