Siri, Siri, Siri! It's probably the most frequently used new word in tech right now, and the system-spanning voice control feature is rightly being lauded as the cream of the company's latest mobile operating system, iOS 5.
Released just yesterday, iOS 5.0.1 Beta was jailbroken already using Redsn0w (by pointing it to the final iOS 5.0 firmware file). The iPhone Dev-Team has now released an updated version of Redsn0w which can recognize the 5.0.1 firmware file so that you don’t have to play the “point at 5.0 IPSW” trick.
Despite the fact that Apple only seeded iOS 5.0.1 to developers a matter of hours ago, the trusty Redsn0w jailbreak tool allows those testing the updated firmware to jailbreak their devices, albeit tethered.
Apple has just released a snappy sequel to its first iteration of iOS 5, citing bug fixes and general housekeeping as the main reasoning behind the necessary update, entitled iOS 5.0.1.
Yesterday, we showed you two videos of Siri working - GUI, Dictation, Voice Commands and all - on an iPhone 4 and an iPod touch 4G but, as we mentioned in the post, the developers are not all that willing to make the port public. Why? Well, you will have to hit past the break to find that out!
We've said it before, and we're not afraid to say it again and if required, once more. Notification Center is quite possibly one of the most important additions to iOS since multitasking and, ironically, it's also one of the most underused aspects of Apple's latest release.
As simple a service as Twitter may be, sending out tweets isn’t. On iOS, you have to launch a Twitter app, tap a button to activate the tweet-input box, face unnecessary information and, finally, tap the Send button.
Siri has finally been ported over to older iOS devices and, unlike last time, there is a way you can install it right now. If you’re interested, you can follow the guide after the jump!
With iOS 5 bringing a lot more sophistication to the experience of using an iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, we can only but hope that the jailbreak community does likewise, upping the ante in order to really take advantage of the new options available within Apple's latest mobile OS.
The iPad 2, which was released earlier this year, is, from what I can tell, one of the slowest iOS devices to get a jailbreak. So far, it has only been jailbroken on iOS 4.3.3 and there has been no news of an iOS 5 jailbreak… until today, that is. An iPhone Dev-Team member has confirmed that the iPad 2 has been jailbroken on iOS 5 and we’ve got the details after the jump!
