Hot on the heels of the post by the iPhone Dev team that provided more details about the untethered jailbreak, pod2g has just published an article of his blog to announce that Chronic Dev team will release a new jailbreak tool called 
and iPhone Dev team will release a command line tool to perform the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
I know the wait was long, too much long, but it’s about to end! You’d be able to free your iPhone (more…)

is that it breaks iBooks, which is quite annoying if you use iBooks quite a lot on your iOS devices.
device, you get the following error message:
There is a problem with the configuration of your iPod touch. Please restore with iTunes or redownload iBooks.
The good news is that iOS hacker with the Twitter handle xvolks has figured out a way to fix the iBooks issue.
With the invaluable help of @pod2g, I’ve patched the kernel in corona to make (more…)

Apple ‘s three carrier partners in the Singapore – SingTel, StarHub and M1 will soon offer a camera less
model to cater to military personnel who can’t carry image-capturing devices to their base. 
However, unlike China, where Apple officially
, the camera less models have no approval from Apple .
take it upon themselves to remove the camera from the device, and charge premium for it.
M1, in fact, posted a listing of such an
on its website, (more…)

Back in June,
.
However, earlier in the week – iH8sn0w – developer of jailbreak tool
 to add support for dumping iOS 5 SHSH blobs, which unlike TinyUmbrella allow users to downgrade to an older version of iOS if they had dumped SHSH blobs with the apticket using iFaith.
It looks like it is going to be soon possible to downgrade using SHSH blobs saved using TinyUmbrella, according to a series of tweets by MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev team.
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, not surprisingly it looks like companies like Google are taking the threat very seriously.
points out one of key differentiators of Siri, is it’s natural language processing capabilities, which gives it an edge over other simple voice recognition systems. So even though Android based smartphones offer Voice Actions and Windows Phone 7 based smartphones come with 
 before Siri was released, they haven’t been as popular as Siri.
However, (more…)

in China at the end of this year.
in China. They’ve received an approval for iPhone 4S from the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
A local media source has claimed that the device has passed the necessary tests from the MIIT, the organisation responsible for the regulation and development of Internet and wireless technologies in China, meaning that it will now need to wait for up to two weeks to receive a network (more…)

Puppies like mine are just one of the gems users can find on Instagram, which may be adding video in the future.

(Credit:
Joe Aimonetti)

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, hinted at a future addition to the popular image-sharing service that would include video posts.

Systrom’s talk at the Disrupt event also included thoughts on international expansion for Instagram (more…)

MG Siegler reports that Google is preparing to finally launch a native application for Gmail. This is great news as even though the Gmail web app is one of the best web apps, we’ve been waiting for Google to launch a native Gmail app.
According to Siegler, the native Gmail app will include features such as Push Notification, Priority Inbox and one-click starring of messages and may also come with contact icons, better threading, and deep searching functionality.
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Couple of days back, iPhone hacker and developer - Steven Troughton-Smith along with chpwn (developer of
, 
,
, 
,
by bypassing the authentication issues.
This had raised hopes that they would eventually release the Siri port for non-iPhone 4S devices. But we have some bad news at least for the time being.
chpwn has just written a blog post to explain why they won’t be able to distribute the port or the procedure they had used. He (more…)

iDownloadBlog reports that student and iOS Developer, Filippo Bigarella plans to release jailbreak app 
soon. Springtomize is one of the popular jailbreak apps that allows jailbroken iPhone users to customize almost each and every aspect of iOS.
Bigarella seems to have redeveloped Springtomize 2 from scratch for iOS 5.
customize your device, in all of its aspects: from its capabilities to the look of your SpringBoard. You can disable elements (more…)