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Breaking News iPad 2 Jailbroken

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Comex, developer of popular jailbreaking tools like Spirit and JailbreakMe has successfully jailbroken iPad 2 that was launched on Friday.

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That was quick, especially since Apple has patched the limera1n and the SHAtter exploit in iPad 2.

Comex broke the news via the following tweets and was also congratulated by the iPhone Dev team:

chpwn: by @comex: http://t.co/osP6lz comex: would’ve had it yesterday if I didn’t have to spend 1.5 days looking for a replacement exploit (which came from a most unexpected place…) iphone_dev: Congrats to @comex for jailbreaking yet another brand new device (iPad2) while 2500 miles away from it!

http://www.iphonehacks.com/images/2011/03/ipad-2-jailbreak.jpg

You can checkout the photo of an iPad 2 running Cydia, the unofficial App Store for jailbreak apps.

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iPad 2 VS iPad 1: Higher RAM Improves Web Browsing Experience

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It was great to find out from the iPad 2 teardown that it comes with 512 MB RAM compared to only 256 MB in iPad 1.

We were hoping that the increase in RAM ensures that mobile Safari browser does not refresh the page every time you switch tabs, which is quite an annoying issue in the first generation iPad. The good news is that the increase in RAM appears to have fixed the issue.

Folks at TiPB have published a video, which shows the improvements in the web browsing experience in iPad 2 over iPad 1.

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As you can see in the video below, iPad 2 caches the pages that are open in the browser tabs unlike iPad 1, which refreshes almost half the pages. iPad 2 also seems to redraw the pages a lot faster while scrolling as you don’t see the checkerboard effect that is observed while scrolling web pages in iPad 1.

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iPad 2 3G GSM Model Is Carrier Unlocked

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If you’re hoping to use iPad 2 3G on T-Mobile’s network or buy it on Ebay as it’s not available in your country then we’ve some good news.

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MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev team has confirmed that iPad 2 3G + Wi-Fi GSM model is carrier unlocked.

MuscleNerd confirmed it on Twitter:

"Confirming iPad2 is carrier unlocked: http://is.gd/PAwtPX (same BB as iPhone…unlock status is in per-device "seczone") The iPad2 unlock status was completely expected, just confirming it for those who want to use T-Mobile instead of AT&T. Doesn’t apply to i4"

And you can checkout the screenshot of iPad 2 3G + Wi-Fi model working on T-Mobile (FaceTime and Camera apps if you’ve any doubt):

http://www.iphonehacks.com/images/2011/03/iPad-2-3G-Unlocked.jpg

Are you happy to find out iPad 2 3G is carrier unlocked? Let us know in the comments.

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Apple '10 Billion App Countdown’ Promotion; Winner To Get $10,000 iTunes Gift Card

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When Apple launched the App Store on July 10th, 2008, even they would not have thought in their wildest imaginations that it would end up becoming such a huge success.

The success of the App Store was clear when one billion apps were downloaded in just 9 months. Fast forward to the present and the App Store is about to hit the magical 10 billion app download mark.

Apple has launched a 10 Billion App Countdown promotion to celebrate the milestone. The user who downloads the 10 billionth app from the App Store will get a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

According to the landing page of the promotion:

“As of today, nearly 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps themselves. So we want to say thanks. Download the 10 billionth app, and you could win a US $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. Just visit the App Store, and download what could be your best app yet.”

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Verizon iPhone Will Be Announced On January 11th

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It looks like iPhone is finally coming to Verizon. Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Verizon will announce the introduction of Apple’s iPhone at the media event on January 11th.

The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

WSJ claims that according to their sources, Verizon iPhone will be similar to iPhone 4 but will work on Verizon’s CDMA network.

As we had mentioned earlier, folks at Gizmodo who had leaked videos and photos of iPhone 4 before it was released have not been invited at the event, despite having good relationship with Verizon, which further indicates that the Verizon media event is Apple centric.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/images/09-Oct/iphone-verizon.jpg

Here's what's key: We're great friends with Verizon. (Hi guys!) We've worked with them for years, and we've been to like every event they've had over the last three years. We haven't gotten an invite. Which is weird. We've reached out to Verizon to see why, exactly, we weren't invited, but we've gotten no comment yet. (Update: Verizon's official response is a big ol' no comment.)

Meanwhile, All Things Digital reports that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is likely to be present for media event:

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iPhone 5 Gets Cloned Before Official Launch

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M8cool has just released a video of what they claim is the clone of Apple's next generation iPhone.

Based on the annual product cycle, Apple usually releases the new iPhone in June so looks like clone makers want to reverse the trend by releasing the clone before the official product launch and in this case almost 6 months before the launch of iPhone 5.

You can checkout the YouTube video of the so-called next generation iPhone clone:

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New SHSH Blob Extractor Work In Progress By iH8Sn0w

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@iH8Sn0w – the man behind Sn0wbreeze [aka PwnageTool for Windows], AUTOSHSH, F0recast, iREB, iDetector and few other useful jailbreak tools/utilities has started working on a new Utility, which will save your iOS device’s SHSH Blob.

This new utility – SHSH Blob Extractor is different from TinyUmbrella & AutoSHSH. How ? It extracts SHSH blob right from your iOS Device not from Apple. This is an awesome feature because, you can save SHSH blobs for whatever firmware the device is running even if Apple stopped signing for it.

That means, If your device is running iOS 4.1. With this utility, you can save SHSH blob for iOS 4.1. Though Apple Stopped Signing For iOS 4.1. This is not possible with TinyUmbrella or AutoSHSH currently.

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Google Digital Newsstand To Take On Apple Newspaper Subscription Service

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We have known for quite a while that Apple is working on a newspaper subscription service for the iPad. Now, it looks like Google could soon be launching their own product that could take on competition from Apple in the digital subscription space.

A report on the Wall Street Journal claims that Google is working with publishers to launch a new "digital newsstand" that will be aimed at readers on the Android platform.

According to the report, this subscription service will let publishers market their content through applications built for smartphones or tablets. The digital newsstand is said to ensure a "consistent experience" for consumers besides making it easy for publishers to collect their payments.

Given the old media's traditional resistance to the digital segment, both Apple and Google are learned to be prepping their service to make them more attractive to publishers. Like Apple, Google too is expected to provide publishers with valuable user details that could help them in their marketing efforts. However, it is not clear if this shall be an opt-in or opt-out feature on the applications. It is worth noting that Apple's plans to offer publishers with similar information did not find much success since these details were planned to be gathered from users on an opt-in basis.

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iPhone Alarms Still Not Working For Some Users

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As you might know, iPhone alarms didn’t work on New Year’s day 2011 for many users.

Apple had acknowledged the iPhone alarm bug and had reassured users that the issue will resolve itself on January 3rd.

But it’s January 3rd and the news is trickling in that the iPhone alarm didn't work for some users resulting in them being late to work on the first working day of 2011.

Some site like Engadget has also confirmed that users are still complaining about the issue. The iPhone alarm bug affects only non-recurring alarms.

If you hit the issue then the only option to avoid it, is to set the alarm as a recurring alarm rather than a one time alarm by following these steps:

* Launch Clock app

* Tap Alarm

* Tap Edit

* Tap the appropriate alarm

* Tap Repeat

* Set a repeat interval

* Tap Save

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Verizon bought Iphone domain?

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Folks at PocketNow have just reported that Verizon has bought iPhone related domains iPhoneonVerizon.com and iPhoneforVerizon.com.

Though it doesn’t confirm that Verizon will start selling Apple’s iPhone on its network (which has been speculated ever since Apple launched iPhone in 2007), it has certainly added fuel to the fire.

The iPhone related domain names were initially registered through GoDaddy to Jack Benton and then transferred to Mark Monitor domain service. The new registration information for the iPhoneonVerizon.com and iPhoneforVerizon.com domains are identical to other domain registered to Verizon, which indicates that Benton either transferred or sold the domains to Verizon. The entity "Verizon Trademark Services" that owns these domain names also owns the verizon.com domain. The domains still don’t forward to Verizon’s official website, which could be to stay under the radar. But since domain registration information can be faked, this could well turn out to be a hoax.

Let’s hope that in 2011, we finally see the launch of Verizon iPhone so that it puts an end to these speculations.Folks at PocketNow have just reported that Verizon has bought iPhone related domains iPhoneonVerizon.com and iPhoneforVerizon.com.

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History of The iPhone Jailbreak

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When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone’s secrets [working with the Dev-Team]. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone [publicly, and against the agreement made with the Dev-Team] delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to.

He got some perks, too. His unlock catapulted him to internet stardom, catching the eye of an entrepreneur who traded his Nissan 350Z car for Hotz’s restriction-free iPhone. Hotz, now 20, makes a living as a “hacker for hire” of sorts — getting paid to break into different types of gadgets. He gets to spend his free time unofficially attending a college [Google University], where he pretends to be a student just to socialize.

What’s best, Hotz didn’t think unlocking the iPhone was even hard.

“It did take 500 hours, but thinking back to some of the stuff I’ve done now, the first iPhone was incredibly easy,” Hotz said in a phone interview.

But what was an easy task for a curious teen has turned into a persistent headache for Apple, one that the company has been trying to cure for over two years, with little success. With each new version of the iPhone operating system, a small army of independent programmers and hackers get to work prying it open, removing restrictions and making their iPhones do things that Apple CEO Steve Jobs never intended.

To stay faithful to agreements with telecom partners, Jobs in September 2007 declared Apple was playing a “cat-and-mouse game” to disable unlocked iPhones. Apple regularly issues software updates to disable hacked, unlocked versions of the handset. But within a few weeks, new hacks emerge, freeing the iPhone from carrier restrictions again.

In fact, Hotz just last month released the easiest hacking solution for the iPhone to date. Named “Blackra1n”, his software can hack and unlock an iPhone in just two minutes. All the user needs to do is plug in an iPhone, launch the application and click a button.

It’s safe to say this is a game where the mouse has outrun the cat, and it’s unlikely Apple will catch up anytime soon. That’s because Apple is up against a lot more than an individual hacker. The iPhone and its App Store not only gave birth to a new digital frontier for mobile software, but created an entire underground ecosystem: the Jailbreak community. In addition to multiple iPhone hacker groups pumping out different unlocking solutions on a regular basis, there are several stores hosting unauthorized iPhone apps and programmers developing software strictly for hacked iPhones.

Humble Beginnings

Available for jailbroken iPhones, themes can change the entire look of the iPhone's menu screen with special buttons and skins. The appearance of the traditional iPhone Home screen cannot be changed. The above theme is called Pitseleh, authored by "Monty" of MacCiti.com, a site that hosts content for hacked iPhones.

Hackers adopted the word “jailbreak” to describe the act of overriding the iPhone’s restrictions to install unauthorized software in the device. Jailbreaking is the first step an iPhone owner must take in order to later execute the hack to unlock the handset, enabling it to work with any carrier. The original iPhone was extremely insecure and thus very easy to jailbreak, according to Hotz, and hackers almost immediately broke into the gadget after it debuted in June 2007.

Jailbreaking accelerated quickly. Soon, hackers reverse-engineered major parts of the iPhone API, and they opened doors to creating and installing third-party apps for the device. Games, utilities and even custom themes and wallpapers enhanced the capabilities of the handset. To Apple enthusiasts, this was exciting: The iPhone at the time had no App Store, so jailbreaking was the only way to get more than the handful of basic apps provided by Apple.

In August 2007, Hotz announced he had unlocked the iPhone with the Dev Team, a group of hackers that posts jailbreak tools and instructions. Soon after, Hotz released software that anyone in the world could use to make their iPhone work with any carrier’s SIM card.

When Apple in July 2008 opened its official App Store, the urge to jailbreak got less exciting. The App Store grew quickly — with 100,000 apps to date — making the act of jailbreaking seemingly irrelevant to the average iPhone owner, who could download Apple-sanctioned apps without risk.

Reformation

iPhone users can only download files smaller than 10MB from the iTunes Store. Also, some third-party apps will not work on a 3G connection, limiting use to Wi-Fi only. 3G Unrestrictor, an app available through the unauthorized app store Cydia, removes 3G restrictions from any app you choose.
But the App Store didn’t stop the Jailbreak community from proliferating. Now that the App Store exists, jailbreakers have shifted their focus to creating work-arounds for the iPhone’s many restrictions. Most share an open-software philosophy, giving consumers full ownership rights over their product, or the ability to do whatever they wish with the gadget they paid for.

Jay Freeman owns Cydia, an unauthorized app store open to jailbroken iPhones, which distributes iPhone apps Apple would otherwise forbid. Before opening his store, Freeman played an instrumental role in setting up the early groundwork for the jailbreak platform. Often referred to as “Saurik” in the Jailbreak community, Freeman admitted he was initially reluctant about the iPhone due to its stifling limitations.

“Apple seems to have spent very little time looking at previous phones, and left out many features that users, such as myself, have come to expect,” said Freeman, reflecting on the original iPhone. “However, [a friend] insisted to me that jailbreaking was the future. The software it comes with doesn’t matter; I can just rewrite it all to my liking.”

The need for an underground app store became more clear after Apple rejected several iPhone apps. The company faced severe scrutiny when it rejected the official Google Voice app, which would enable consumers to use a single phone number to ring all their phones, send free text messages and make cheap international calls. The move stirred so much controversy that even the Federal Communications Commission investigated the rejection.

Unauthorized app stores served as a way of circumventing Apple’s censorship. And some programmers are even making money coding forbidden iPhone apps.

“People are so annoyed by Apple and their shit, and if you give them opportunity to go around it, then they’ll even pay for it,” said Kim Streich, a developer whose app 3G Unrestrictor earned $19,000 in sales in just two weeks through Cydia.

With more than 10 million jailbroken iPhones registered, Freeman’s Cydia store is the most popular underground app store. Icy and Installer, two previous unauthorized iPhone software distributors, have been discontinued.

Perseverance

George Hotz's self-portrait, included with his jailbreaking software, portrays him as a Caravaggio-style youth orbited by iPhones. Whenever Apple releases an iPhone update, the new software usually erases unauthorized apps and disables unlocked iPhones. In response, the iPhone hacker group Dev Team continues to post regular updates on its blog with instructions and new jailbreak patches for newer iPhone software. The Dev Team’s main jailbreak weapon is called Pwnage Tool, which creates a custom (hacked) patch for Apple’s iPhone firmware and then installs it on the device.

To further combat jailbreaks, Apple has attempted to claim to the U.S. Copyright Office that jailbreaking is illegal. However, the Dev Team skirts around copyright issues by not copying and providing Apple’s software, according to Eric McDonald, a member of the Dev Team. Instead, the Pwnage Tool requires iPhone users to download Apple’s legitimate firmware, and the Pwnage Tool patches it with jailbreak code.

Hotz, who was kicked out of the Dev Team after prematurely publishing information on iPhone hacks, still hacks away the iPhone on his own. [told ya] Hotz doesn’t demand money for his work, though he does accept donations. He isn’t shy about showing his face to Apple or the world, either: When running Blackra1n, the iPhone temporarily displays a photo of Hotz styled as an angel from a Caravaggio painting (above).

“Blackra1n is only 600K, and 200k of it is my picture,” Hotz said, laughing.

Though the Jailbreak community persistently issues new hacks for iPhone updates, Apple is continuing to fight. A recent Apple job listing reveals the company is seeking an iPhone OS security manager to help prevent exploits, which could block future jailbreak solutions.

Hotz doubted a security expert could block his efforts. In fact, he said he’s already discovered a brand new exploit that will jailbreak and unlock Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone [geohot himself said on twitter moments ago that this was bullshit, the reporter is fabricating shit]— presumably due in stores summer of 2010 – even though he hasn’t touched it. [exactly, why doesn't this guy just suck his dick?]

“Personally I love that Apple keeps the iPhone closed,” Hotz said. “This is a personal hobby; it’d be no fun if Apple didn’t have it closed anymore. Get a Jailbreak cop and then I’ll show them what I can really do.”

thanks to geohot for the link
stolen from wired

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8 Ways Choice Iphone 4G

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When creating iPhone 4, Apple designers and engineers didn’t start with a clean sheet of paper. They started with three years of experience designing and building the phones that redefined what a phone can do. iPhone 4 is the result of everything they’ve learned so far. And it’s all contained in a beautiful enclosure a mere 9.3 millimeters thin, making iPhone 4 the world’s thinnest smartphone.

All the breakthrough technology in iPhone 4 is situated between two glossy panels of aluminosilicate glass — the same type of glass used in the windshields of helicopters and high-speed trains. Chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, the glass is ultradurable and more scratch resistant than ever. It’s also recyclable.

The 960-by-640 backlit LCD display boasts a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, making it the highest-resolution phone screen ever. To achieve this, Apple engineers developed pixels so small — a mere 78 micrometers across — that the human eye can’t distinguish individual pixels. That makes text remarkably sharp and graphics incredibly vivid. IPS technology also provides excellent color and contrast from almost any viewing angle.

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