Last week was all about the new iPad and Apple TV announcements, but despite that, there was some interesting jailbreak news littered in there as well. Most importantly, jailbreaks tool for iOS 5.1 were released to accomplish a tethered jailbreak on the new firmware. We also demonstrate the new Lock screen camera functions for iOS 5.1, along with how to unlock the iPhone 4S..
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The US Department of Justice has just approved the sale of Nortel patents to the group Rockstar Consortium, which is an alliance made up of Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Ericsson and Sony. The acquisition is priced at roughly $4.5 billion and will give the group 4,000 patents, reports The Next Web.
The patents are vital, and cover areas like 4G, network, voice, and more...
Apple's iPhone is now available on the second and third largest carriers in China, China Unicom and China Telecom. Both carriers combined give Apple access to 34% of China's whopping 988 million mobile users. However, like in any market, Apple is competing for those sales.
According to a new report from Bloomberg, quoting Gartner, Apple's iPhone is having trouble gaining marketshare in China, while Samsung's lead has tripled...
Apple has been rumored to unveil a 7-inch iPad for years now, and we most recently heard the Kindle Fire competitor is set to launch sometime this fall. Earlier this month, leaked Samsung documents helped tighten up some of the rumors.
Today, Asian publication Digitimes is reporting that the 7-inch iPad will feature a slim bezel display, that will bring less space between the display and outside of the device...
For those of you wondering whether or not Apple keeps close tabs on the jailbreak community, well, you can stop wondering. The company directly refers to jailbreakers on its new iOS 5.1 security content page.
As most of you know, Apple patched the exploits used in both the Corona and Absinthe jailbreak tools in the software update. And apparently, it's aware of exactly who is responsible for creating them...
In Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Steve Jobs, it was revealed that the Apple co-founder had apparently "cracked" the code of the Apple television set we've been waiting for. While speaking to a Brazilian TV network, Issacson admitted he left out a few details about the TV set from his book, out of respect for Steve Jobs and Apple.
Of course part of building a TV set of such stature, Apple has to get TV networks on board for streaming. In a news report from Hollywood Report, CBS's CEO Les Moonves reportedly said no to Steve Jobs over a content streaming partnership...
Those of you who have ignored our warnings and upgraded your devices to iOS 5.1 in the past week will be happy to hear that hackers are already hard at work on jailbreaking the new software.
As expected, the 5.1 update, which Apple released last week alongside its new iPad, effectively breaks the exploits used in both the Corona and Absinthe jailbreak tools...
If you live in a part of the world which required a change to the clocks this weekend, then it may be worth checking all is well with your iOS devices because, according to isolated reports, some are once again struggling to behave as expected during the switchover.
We've been here plenty of times before, so we really shouldn't be surprised. Even so, Apple's inability to make something so simple work reliably is something we just can't help but marvel at.
They can cram more pixels into a 10-inch tablet than we care to count, but ask Apple to make a phone do something that computers have been doing for years and it apparently gets stumped...
Remember that little feature we showed you with the OS X Messages beta that let you send files to your iDevice straight from the desktop?
Imagine that, but imagine it about 50 times better. That's what you get with the upcoming jailbreak tweaks entitled SendAny and ReceiveAny — they allow you to send and receive any type of file using iMessage.
Check inside for our full hands-on preview of both tweaks in action...
We're all excited to get our hands on the new iPad, and with less than a week to go until its release, there really isn't that long left to wait. In fact, it's probably time to start queuing for the few iPads that will be available in stores.
It seems someone else has had the same idea, and believe it or not, some people are already in line outside the Regent Street Apple Store in London, England.
Remember, there is still almost a week until release day...
You know the old saying, "where there's smoke, there's fire?" Essentially it means, well the way we use it anyways, is that we wouldn't be hearing consistent rumors from a bunch of different sources unless there was some kind of truth behind them.
This proved true with the recent iPad gossip, and we imagine the same will hold true for the rumored Apple TV set. Chatter has really picked up over the last year regarding an Apple-branded television, but it's actually been going on for more than 5 years...
Ever since the creation of iDB back in 2008, we have been focusing on everything jailbreak. We sure love reporting on news, rumors, and sharing tips and tricks, but the essence, the core of iDownloadBlog, is its devotion to the jailbreak community. That's what we love to do. That's in our DNA.
Our comprehensive and in depth coverage of everything jailbreak is probably the reason why you started reading us in the first place, and chances are, that's probably one of the reasons why you're still reading us today.
As a testament of our commitment to the jailbreaking cause, I am proud to announce today that iDownloadBlog is an exclusive sponsor of JailbreakCon 2012, the first jailbreak convention to ever take place in the United States...