With thousands of tweaks available over at the Cydia Store, it can be an often trying effort to locate the best and most useful to grace your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Many of the millions of iPhone, iPod, and iPod touch users across the globe are keenly awaiting progress on that elusive untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. With a little time and patience, we wait in hope that the hackers will find the solution, allowing iDevice users - including those of the brand new, but as-yet un-jailbroken iPhone 4S - and iPad 2 - to enjoy free reign.
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Due to the ever-ensuing patent battles, not all features of smartphone devices can be replicated onto those of rivals, and whether you're an Apple fanboy, Droid junkie, or bear a partisan affinity to Microsoft's Windows Phone, it cannot be denied that each has differing strengths and weaknesses.
With iOS 5.0.1 having now been made public, attention has swiftly turned to the jailbreak potential. As was the case with iOS 5.0, Sn0wbreeze has been updated to version 2.8b11 to cater for Apple's latest release.
Yesterday, we published a post in which we talked about a Chronic Dev Team member claiming that he had found a bug which would help in untethered jailbreak for iOS 5. Today, the same member has let jailbreaking enthusiasts know that if they wish to jailbreak their iOS device untethered, they should stay away from iOS 5.0.1.
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.
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.
iOS is renowned for its crisp, clean, and generally good user interface. That doesn't mean, however, that it couldn't benefit from a tint of color here and there, now does it?
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.
Aside from the release of the original iPad last year, followed by its predecessor back in March, it's hard to recall a tablet surrounded by more buzz in the technology world than Amazon's Kindle Fire.
