Apple ’s UK site has also been updated to say that iOS 4.1 will be available on
while Apple ‘s US site continues to say “Coming Soon”.
To recap, iOS 4.1 will include the following new features and fixes:
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos: Steve Jobs explained that HDR photos are created using 3 photos taken in rapid succession: one normal, one under-exposed, and one over-exposed. The photos are then combined using some pretty sophisticated algorithms (more…)

Back in April, there were speculations that Geohot will release an untethered
.3 and
as he had bought a domain.
Geohot had taken part in Nuit Du Hack conference held in Paris at the end of June, where he mentioned that he had found a new bootrom exploit, which can ultimately pwn all iPhones for life, including iPhone 4. He has named this exploit as
.
4, limera1n and pwned4life in his blog post:
Got one of these in the mail today and figured (more…)

Kaatje explains that the process involved creating a custom ipsw file for iPhone OS 4.0 and restoring it on her iPhone 3GS using
“I accomplished this by patching asr, lockdownd, LLB, iBEC, IBSS, iBoot, kernelcache, MobileSafari, Services.plist, and fstab. The binaries were patched with IDA Pro and OxED and were then diffed against the original pwned files with bsdiff to create patch files. I then took the diff files and built a firmware bundle (more…)

iPhone OS hacker, GeoHot, released Blackra1n this weekend, a new jailbreak utility for iPhone OS 3.1.2.

The new utility, for Windows only, follows on the heels of Purplera1n and you can download it immediately. Windows users can use it to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 on all iPhone and iPod Touch models regardless of the hardware generation. Using the application is simple just plug in your iPhone or iPod Touch using the standard USB (more…)

If you’re one of the millions of iPhone users who’ve jailbroken their iPhones or iPod Touches–the desktop hacking trick that allows you to use non-Apple approved apps, access the iPhone ‘s file system, and other tweaks–you’ll want to hold off on the latest software update (3.1) that Apple announced Wednesday. Updating your iPhone or iPod Touch will break your jailbreak, meaning any services and apps you’ve installed via Cydia (more…)