Chinese iPhones smell like pineapple, peach, mango and apple
Did you ever smell your iPhone when it’s charging? Try now and you may smell pineapple or possibly peach, mango or Apple. Lots of Chinese iPhone owners claim the headphone jacks on their iPhones smell like pineapple when charging. This is a popular discussion topic on China’s most popular microblogging platform SINA weibo and has [...]
iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak Update
Not long ago, we saw the release of the iPad 3/New iPad, and with it came a firmware update to iOS 5.1. Many users jumped on the update, only to lose their jailbreak, unfortunately. While the minds behind the jailbreaks are still pushing forward, an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1 is still unavailable. You can [...]
How to Unlock Your iPhone with AT&T While Keeping Your Jailbreak
Very recently, AT&T began unlocking iPhones for use overseas or on another carrier. There was much rejoicing among stock iOS users, but the jailbreak community was slightly less ecstatic. Unlocking the device required an update to the latest firmware, which would render your jailbreak inoperable. Fortunately, there’s Redsnow, and the developers behind the jailbreaks have [...]
An Inside Look at How iPads are Made at Foxconn [Video]
Foxconn has been getting a lot of hard looks in the last couple of years. As the manufacturing partner for the bulk of Apple iPad production, the Chinese factories that produce these tablets have been under intense scrutiny from several labor organizations, but also the curious users of those devices. Very few people, though, are [...]
New iPhone with A5X, 1GB of RAM in Testing, Report Says
With summer drawing ever closer, and the New iPad behind us, we can now focus our rumor-gathering powers on the next Apple product. As Apple loves to foil rumor around future naming conventions, we’re not really sure that the next iPhone will indeed be called the iPhone 5, but we’re still leaning that way. Unfortunately, [...]
An Interview With Rob Shoesmith: The Man Who Camped Out For the iPhone 5
We first heard about Robert Shoesmith back in August of 2011. At the time, rumors were still all we had about Apple’s next iPhone, and across the web we were still calling it the iPhone 5. Shoesmith, a former trash collector, or bin man, was now an employee of MEDLMobile. He has a flair for [...]
Jailbreak iOS 5.1 on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Using Snowbreeze 2.9.2
With the New iPad announcement behind us, life is moving on for Apple owners. The New iPad has quickly been sold out in the pre-order phase, and iOS 5.1 has hit devices. Now comes the long wait for yet another untethered jailbreak for the new release. iOS 5.1 closed a great deal of holes that [...]
JailbreakCon Coming to California
The world’s premiere convention for iDevice hackers, the Worldwide Jailbreak Convention, is coming to California’s South San Francisco Conference Center on September 29th, 2012. Previously known as MyGreatFest, the newly re-branded WWJC is a gathering about all things “i”. A lineup of the biggest names in the jailbreaking world will be on-hand to give speeches, [...]
Jailbreak iOS 5.1 Semi-Untethered on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (A4) Using Redsnow 0.9.10b6
Less than a day after iOS 5.1 was released the public, the ever-reliable iPhone Dev Team has released an update to Redsnow that will provide you with a tethered jailbreak. The optional semi-tether package is also available, which will allow you to retain much of your device’s functionality in the event you need to reboot [...]
Download iOS 5.1 Now
iOS 5.1 has been in beta testing since right after the release of iOS 5, and iOS 5.01. With the announcement of the New iPad in the can, Apple has begun rolling out the finished version to the public. Unlike iOS 5, there were surprisingly few beta releases, which means that Apple has pretty well nailed [...]
