The moment many of you (including us here at GS) have been waiting for, an official iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak, has finally arrived thanks to the combined efforts of the Chronic-Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team. Enough talking. Get downloading! The following devices are supported (Pretty much every iPad, 3G+ iPod and 2G+ iPhone): iPad: 1,1 – 2,1 – 2,2 – 2,3 – 3,1 – 3,2 – 3,3 (Support for iPad2,4 will be added at a later date) iPod: 3,1 – 4,1 iPhone: 2,1 – 3,1 –...
If you’re like some of us here at GS and anxiously awaiting the highly anticipated Absinthe 2.0/iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, you have less than 24 hours left. A recent tweet from the @HITBsecConf twitter account for said conference says that on Friday, May 25th, pod2g and friends will be showing off a live demonstration of the new jailbreak, with a public release hitting the interwebs (reportedly) shortly thereafter. The event is kicking off at 11:30am CET (5:30am...
Looking forward to the fruition of certain rumors pointing to RIM pushing BlackBerry Messenger to non-BB devices like iPhones and Android phones? Don’t. A new report by the WSJ claims CEO Thorsten Heins has pretty much killed the project that would see RIM release iOS and Android compatible version of BlackBerry Messenger. The original goal to opening up BlackBerry Messenger was to have it compete with the flood of other device and non-device specific chat apps like...
Remember that awesome Unfold iOS lockscreen tweak we showed you just last week? Well, the jailbreak community (specifically, German developer Jonas Gessner) apparently loved the concept too as they’ve already whipped something up and shot it onto the Cydia App Store. As the concept depicted, the tweak itself is pretty basic; you unlock your screen by sliding across as normal. Though, instead the usual sliding button at the bottom, the screen folds in on itself into a...
We spend quite a lot of time away from outlets/USB ports. We also chug data like cheap, watery beer. The two combined result in a red battery meter by midday — clearly not an acceptable scenario. While battery packs certainly make the mobile lifestyle more bearable, battery cases make it bearable and convenient. That said, we’ve come to be quite the battery case aficionados here at Gadgetsteria, building an ever-growing database of iPhone battery case...
