Just a few days after iOS hacker pod2g announced that he’d performed an untethered jailbreak on a device running iOS 5.0, he’s managed to jailbreak an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. That means that if you’re planning to jailbreak you iPhone or iPod touch once the tools are released, it’s safe to update to iOS 5.0.1 now. There are a few caveats. If you plan… Read more »

Siri is one of the most talked-about features of the new iPhone 4S. Sure, Apple’s latest phone also has a dual core processor which offers better performance than the chips found in the iPhone 4 or the latest iPod touch. But Apple’s new voice-assist service which lets you ask your phone questions — and get real answers is the show-stopping feature that makes the iPhone 4S… Read more »

Hot on the heels of Geohot’s Limera1n tool for jailbreaking some iPhone and iPod touch models running iOS 4.1, the folks at the iPhone Dev Team have launched a new tool based on the same exploit. In a nutshell what that means is you can use the new greenpois0n tool to jailbreak the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, or 3rd or 4th generation iPod touch… Read more »

Netflix has launched an updated version of its mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch. The release notes mention some bug fixes, but the most important new feature is support for video out if you’re using the iPhone 4 or 4th generation iPod touch. The Netflix iPad app already had video out support. Of course, neither of these devices has a built-in video output, so… Read more »

Update: There’s now an easier method for installing Flash on a jailbroken iDevice. See below. There’s good news and bad news for iPhone users who have been hoping to get Adobe Flash up and running on their phones. The good news is you can do it now. The bad news is that it only works on iOS 4 and you need to jailbreak your device…. Read more »

Now that it’s easy as pie to jailbreak an iPhone 4, you might be looking for other ways to free your mobile phone from Apple and AT&T’s grip — like unlocking the phone so that it can work on other mobile networks. Now there’s an app in the Cydia store for jailbroken iPhones. It’s called ultrasn0w 1.0-1, and it can unlock the iPhone 4 and… Read more »

Want to run iPhone apps that aren’t available in Apple’s App Store? Then you might want to think about jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch. But up until today there was not easy method for jailbreaking a device running iOS 4, including the new iPhone 4 or older devices that had been upgraded. But now the folks at the iPhone Dev Team have made jailbreaking… Read more »

FaceTime for the iPhone 4 is a pretty awesome tool that lets you make video calls to other iPhone 4 users. Unfortunately there are a few limitations. Both you and the person you’re calling have to be on WiFi, since FaceTime doesn’t currently work over 3G. You’ll both need to have iPhone 4 devices, obviously. And the way things work right now, you actually have… Read more »

Apple has started pushing out iOS  4.0.1 for iPhone users. The primary feature in the software update is a chance in the way iOS determines how many bars of signal strength to display on the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably heard that many iPhone 4 users have experienced signal loss and dropped calls when they… Read more »

In much of the world, iPhone customers can pick up an unlocked phone to use with the wireless carrier of their choice. If you’re in the US, on the other hand, you have a choice of getting an AT&T iPhone or… not getting an iPhone at all. Fortunately there’s an active iPhone hacking community, and some of the best known members of that community have… Read more »