The race to release the iPhone 4 jailbreak has got some new contestants with a group calling itself the “New iPhone Dev Team” claims that its iPhone 4 jailbreak tool, the unpleasantly named, Shitra1n will beat Comex and the established iPhone jailbreakers of the iPhone Dev Team to the punch with a release this weekend. But many are claiming that the tool is another fake iPhone 4 jailbreak…
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The ruling in the US that any iPhone 4 jailbreak will be legal there is unlikely to go unchallenged by Apple according to analysts and legal experts. We know Apple isn’t happy with the exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that essentially allows free reign for iPhone jailbreak fans but will could it really head to court to get the decision reversed?
A decision in the US now means that the forthcoming iPhone 4 jailbreak won’t be deemed illegal by the courts there. But Apple still has the provisions of its end user agreement which forbids any attempt to “modify” or reverse engineer iOS which means it could still go after after the iPhone 4 jailbreak creators and iPhone 4 owners who decide to smash open the software. It hasn’t in the past though and here’s why it shouldn’t now…
The iPhone 4 jailbreak from the iPhone Dev Team hasn’t made its way out into the world yet thanks to some issues with apps including FaceTime, as we told you yesterday. But more proof that the iPhone 4 jailbreak has been achieved has been revealed in a video interview with Cydia creator Saurik (known to his mum as Jay Freeman). Head through for the iPhone 4 jailbreak video and more details on why it’s delayed…
Our iPhone 4 jailbreak poll on Friday asked “what’s taking so long?” A whopping 65% of you concluded that it’s simply trickier than first thought. And it seems your prediction was spot on. Though Comex suggested last week that the iPhone 4 jailbreak solution could arrive within days, issues with key apps including FaceTime are slowing things up.
The latest word from the folk hard at work on the iPhone 4 jailbreak is that we can expect a publicly available solution within days. But gadget fans are an impatient lot and we’ve been getting stacks of emails and comments asking just what’s taking so long with the iPhone 4 jailbreak. We know that coders aren’t waiting for the iOS 4.1 update now, so what else is getting in the way? Tell us what you think in our ever-so-impatient iPhone 4 jailbreak poll after the beak…
The iPhone 4 jailbreak is just days away according to Comex, the brains behind the Spirit iPhone jailbreak. He’s taken to Twitter to confirm that he won’t be waiting for the iOS 4.1 update and is working flat out to release a new iPhone 4 jailbreak solution. If you’re waiting to bust open your iPhone 4, read on for the word straight from the canny coder…
An iPhone 4 jailbreak release is still on track despite the arrival of the iOS 4.0.1 update. There had been oodles of speculation that Apple would introduce new measures to frustrate coders but that hasn’t happened this time. The iPhone Dev Team reports that the ultrasn0w iPhone unlock used by Planetbeing as part of his iPhone 4 jailbreak has not been blocked and iPhone 3G jailbreak tools still work just fine. Read on for the latest installment in the iPhone 4 jailbreak saga…