The jailbreak community presents the perfect opportunity for developers to plug the holes which exist with each and every iOS release. Apple's fifth iteration of its mobile operating system has brought forth some great new features, but there is, and always will be, room for improvement.
The final build of iOS 5 was jailbroken in a matter of hours after its release, it happened majorly due to the fact that the final and the Gold Master candidate builds were exactly the same, hence the tools which were already available for jailbreaking iOS 5 GM could jailbreak the final build of iOS 5 as well.
We love iOS 5 here at Redmond Pie, and one of its top additions to an ageing mobile operating system is Notification Center, Apple's new home for all the messages and push notifications we all receive.
A new Cydia package called “SemiTether” jailbreak for iOS 5 is now available on BigBoss repository which basically helps reboot tethered-jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch without having to plug in your device into PC or Mac. This is second best thing to having an untethered jailbreak. The only one downside to it is that it doesn’t allow you to use Safari, Mail, Cydia, and jailbreak apps installed on your device.
One of the most exciting and interesting aspects of iOS 5 is no doubt the addition of a new way of handling notifications, called Notification Center.
While just about every new feature in iOS 5 is a welcome one, there are a handful which, well, aren’t all that welcome. Take the example of the updated Camera.app: in iOS 5 it only allows the pinch-to-zoom gesture for zooming in and out. This certainly works, but it is just isn’t as comfortable to pull off as double-tapping the screen and then moving a slider up/down.
The basic reason why people jailbreak their iOS device is because jailbreaking, well, sets their device free of Apple’s “walled garden”, allowing users to completely customize the way their iOS devices works and looks like.
The need (or lack thereof) to jailbreak and tweak iOS 5 is something which has been questioned to the nth degree since the WWDC '11 announcement. With Apple making some 200+ changes, many of which took into account features previously exclusive to a pwned version of iOS 4 or earlier, many wondered why one would actually jailbreak - besides downloading tweaks.
Google, you just can't argue that the search giant doesn't touch our lives in more ways than we probably realize. If it's not our Android smartphone, our Android tablet - some people bought one of those, right? - or the way we live in Gmail, the chances are you still find yourself hitting Google.com at least once a day.
We seem to do this dance every time Apple launches a major new iOS release, and iOS 5 is certainly no different. With Apple bringing iOS 5 to the party last Wednesday, pretty much the half the planet rushed off to download it, with the results being Apple's own data centers curling up into the foetal position.
