According to a recent report by the BGR, Apple is planning to release a completely re-designed iPhone in 2012, and we won’t see the device around June or July of 2012, instead we will have to wait until the Fall of 2012. Apple launched the iPhone 4S in October 2011, so it would make sense for them to launch the new iPhone around the same time in 2012, I could be wrong on this but i would put money on it being called the iPhone 5.
BGR has learned a number of details surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone from a close source. For starters, we can now confidently say that Apple’s next iPhone will launch in the fall next year, around the same time that this year’s iPhone 4S launched. The next iPhone is expected to come with a slightly larger display of around 4 inches and it is also rumored to feature an aluminum casing similar to that of the iPad 2. 2012 iPhone First Predictions:
For those who don’t know, PwnageTool jailbreak tool has a capability to jailbreak your iPhone as well as preserved the unlockable baseband of it in order to allow you to unlock using the latest version of the iPhone Dev team’s Ultrasn0w carrier unlocking tool. PwnageTool utilizes Chronic Dev Team’s kernel based Greenpois0n exploit in order to achieved a permanent untethered jailbreak on iOS 4.2.1 that runs on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G, iPad, AppleTV 2G, and the recently released Verizon CDMA iPhone 4.
Now, we are going to show how to get untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak on iPhones using PwnageTool 4.2 for Mac OS X as well as how to prepare your beloved iPhone for Ultrasn0w unlock.
Untethered Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 As Well As Prepare An iPhone To Unlock Using PwnageTool 4.2: Step 1: Download iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool 4.2 from this link. Make sure that your iPhone is running on iOS 4.2.1, or download the iOS 4.2.1 form this link. Load iTunes and sync your iDevice so you can backup. If you don’t want to backup with iTunes, you can do it manually. Step 2: Launch PwnageTool. Click the “Expert” mode button and then select your iPhone. Click on the blue arrow to continue. Step 3: Click on “Browse for IPSW” and then click on the blue arrow. A window will popup and you will need to select the firmware you downloaded in step 1. Step 4: In the next window, you will need to select into several options. Click “General” and click the blue arrow to proceed in the next step. A) Under the same window you can choose to activate your iPhone. In the next screen adjust the size of the partition or leave as it is and click on continue. B) You should “activate” your iPhone if you are using an unofficial carrier and planning to unlock your iPhone. C) You don’t need to select “activate” if you have an iPhone legitimately activated on an official carrier (like AT&T in the US) D) You may need to increase the size of the root partition slightly. It is recommended to increase the size to about 695 MB. Click the blue arrow o continue. Step 5: A Cydia Setting page will popup, hit the “download packages” tab, and hit refresh. This step will allow you to install any application that you want so when you restore your iPhone it will be packed with apps that you may use. Click the package you want to install and click “add to queue”. Click on the blue arrow to continue. All the apps you selected will be displayed in the “Select Packages” tab. Select OpenSSH as shown in the screen below. Ensure that everything is right and then click on the blue arrow to continue. Step 6: Hit the “Build” and then click on the blue arrow to continue and start creating your custom firmware. Step 7: The app will ask you where you want to save the custom firmware. It is advisable to save your IPSW on your desktop. Step 8: Wait till the application successfully saved and built the custom firmware on your desktop. Step 9: The PwnageTool will help you to put your iPhone into “DFU Mode”. Connect your iPhone to your computer turned ON and follow the onscreen instructions. A) Press and hold the power and home buttons for 10 seconds. B) Then release the power button and continue holding the home button for 10 seconds. Step 10: When done, PwnageTool will tell you to go and restore in iTunes. Launch your iTunes (it will recognize a device in recovery mode), Click OK to continue. Hold the “Alt/Option” key and click “Restore” at the same time to restore your custom firmware. DO NOT click “Restore” without holding the “Alt/Option” key! A dialog box will pop up and you’ll be able to choose the custom IPSW file you created. Step 11: iTunes will restore your iPhone using the customized iOS 4.2.1 firmware. Once done, the app will automatically reboot your iPhone.
For those unaware, just like the Sn0wbreeze, the PwnageTool jailbreak tool is essential for iPhone unlockers. This is a special jailbreak tool that has a capability to jailbreak the iOS while preserving the unlockable baseband of your device so that you can unlock your iPhone (old baseband version) using the ltest version of the iPhone Dev Team’s Ultrasn0w 1.2, which can be downloaded in Cydia app Store once the device is running on a jailbroken iOS. This is a tethered jailbreak method. Meaning, you have to connect your device with Mac for successful reboot.
This tutorial is aimed for advanced jailbreakers/users as it requires a ramdisk, but we’ll try our best to keep it as simple as possible. You can follow our ideas for tethered jailbreak your iOS device with PwnageTool tutorial posted below:
Note: iPhone unlockers should stay away from this jailbreaking method because Ultrasn0w unlocking does not support iOS 4.3 due to ASLR implementation.
How To Patch / Modify PwnageTool using custom bundles: In order to enable PwnageTool to jailbreak iOS 4.3 you need to modify it using the custom PwnageTool bundles.
Step 1: Launch Universal Ramdisk Fixer and just simply follow the on-screen instruction to fix the ramdisk.
How To Create Custom iOS 4.3 Step 1: Launch the iTunes 10.2.1 and backup your iOS device Step 2: Start the modified PwnageTool with PwnageTool Bundle Step 3: Now select your iOs devie (iPhone or iPad) and click the blue arrow to continue. Step 4: Browse for iPSW file (iOS 4.3) which you have already downloaded earlier. Step 5: then, simply click the Build button to create custom firmware and save it on your PC.
How To Restore Custom iOS 4.3 into the iOS Device Through iTunes: Step 1: You need to put your iOS device into the DFU mode. Just simply follow the onscreen instructions: Hold Power and Home buttons for 10 seconds Now release the Power button but continue holding the Home button for 10 more seconds You device should now be in DFU mode Step 2: Once in DFU mode, launch iTunes and the software will automatically detect your iOS device, just press OK to continue. Step 3: Now, install the custom cooked firmware by pressing the Alt/Option key and click on “Restore” in iTunes. Wait till the restoration completed. The device will reboot after it has been restored successfully.
How To Tethered Boot iOS Device: Agaian, there’s no available untethered jailbreak method for the iOS 4.3, so we need to tethered boot the device every time we reboot. You can use software called “tetheredboot” to boot your iOS device into a tethered jailbroken state.
Tetheredboot requires two files from iOS 4.3: kernelcache.release.n90, and iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu.
To get these files, change the extension of iOS 4.3 from .ipsw to .zip and then extract it. You will find them under /Firmware/dfu/ folder. Put all these files and tetheredboot utility into a new folder on desktop and name it “tetheredboot”. How To Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1/5.0/4.3.5 iPhone 4/3Gs iPod Touch 4/3 iPad:
We have some good news for the entire iPhone jailbreak community - if you are rocking a jailbroken iOS device then you will be glad to know that Saurik (or known as Jay Freeman and the creator of Cydia) finally released the highly anticipated Cydia version 1.1 for jailbroken iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. If you are unaware, Cydia is the alternative App store jailbroken iOS devices where you can get unapproved tweaks, jailbreak apps, and programs for your jailbroken iOS. In simple words, you have to jailbreak your iOS device in order to access Cydia, and most apps available in Cydia cannot be found in official iTunes App Store.
Saurik has managed to enhanced and add more features to his Cydia. The Cydia 1.1 comes with necessary speed improvement, resume and multiple language support. Additionally, it is significantly faster and more stable, Saurik also incorporated an improved search algorithm and “resume where you left off” features.
Other features ad improvements of Cydia 1.1 include: 1) The ability to run and operate Activator, libstatusbar, and SimulatedKeyEvents while Cydia is running 2) An overall speed improvement, including the “Loading Changes” dialog 3) “much less” memory usage 4) A more advanced search mechanism with a new relevancy algorithm 5) Better management of broken repositories 6) Read our previous post for full details about what’s new in Cydia.
You can visit our affiliate site, www.news.ziphone.org, to know more about Cydia 1.1. In the meantime, you can follow the simple instructions posted below to update to Cydia 1.1: Step 1: Just simply launch Cydia from the Springboard of your jailbroken iOS device Step 2: Then refresh your packages (done automatically) Step 3: You will be prompted to upgrade “Essential packages” or “Complete Upgrade”. Select “Complete Upgrade”. Step 4: Cydia will be updated to version 1.1 and then will require you to restart Cydia.
There is a new iPhone app coming out that could actually reduce the amount of time that you need to wear glasses or contact lenses. This new app is called GlassesOff and it is being developed by Ucansi and is expected to be released in the next couple of weeks. The GlassesOff app has been found to improve eyesight in people of 50 to that of a 40 years old and this was after just 40 sessions of using the app. Sounds pretty great doesn’t it? Studies have also shown that this app can help people to read sentences more quickly.
When you purchase this app and use it you will get a grey screen with a white circle and then images at random places on the screen. These images can be blank or have blurred lines or patterns on them and what you have to do is pick out the specific gabor patches that pop up where the white circle is. What happens is that eye muscle gets a workout which helps to keep the eye young and healthy.
If this sounds like something you would like to try out then be warned, it is going to retail at £60 for three months when it hits the app stores. Seems pretty pricey but if it really does do what it says it will work out cheaper than laser eye surgery. It is going to be available in the App Store later this year and if it does well I’m sure we will see some other developers producing similar apps that will be available in the Cydia store.
Flipboard is an application that iPad owners are likely familiar with. In a nutshell, it masterfully transforms the information that is being shared with you – news feeds, social network updates, and the likes, into an elegant magazine with a personal touch. And the app just got even better – Flipboard has gone down in size and is now available on the iPhone too.
Besides being modified to fit the iPhone's screen, Flipboard has also received a new feature that the iPad version has yet to get. Based on the type of content that you read the most, the app compiles a selection of cover stories – stories that are most likely to be of interest to you. And the more you use Flipboard, the smarter it gets. Of course, social network integration is still present, and the global search bar can dig through all of your accounts.
If you have used Flipboad on an iPad before, your content will be automatically made accessible on the iPhone as soon as you log in. And if you have not tried the app yet, feel free to check it out by hitting the source link below.
German Mac rumor site, Macerkopf, claims to have gotten a little insider dirt on iPhone 5 testing. The site says it has two sources that commented on a few of the configurations that Apple is currently testing for its next iPhone release.
Apple rumored to be testing a quad-core iPhone with a 720 display The first is, in addition to dual-core processors, Apple is testing a quad-core iPhone. It is not clear if that technology would be even be ready in time for a release, but it is reasonable to think that Apple would at least be open to testing a quad-core option to see if a balance could be struck between speed, price, and battery life.
Macerkopf also states that Apple is testing several different screen resolutions that are higher than the current resolution of 960x640. Specifically, it says that Apple is testing a 1280x720 display and a 1440x800 display. The first is seen in some Android phones, so it is entirely plausible. The second is somewhat of an odd ratio, but with Apple, you never know.
Obviously, coming off the release of the iPhone 4S, these are very early rumors. It will be interesting to see if any of these speculations end up holding any water in the future.
If you work for Apple and are unhappy with your iPhone, you may want to keep it to yourself. An employee at the Apple Store in Norwich, UK by the name of Samuel Crisp was terminated for just that. Apparently Crisp had made several derogatory and sarcastic comments in reference to the company. He was then suspended, and later fired.
One instance that was cited was when Crisp was trying out an app for his iPhone, he posted, “****ed up my time zone for the third time in a week and woke me up at 3am? JOY!!” Another was when Apple posted “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget.” to hint at the upcoming Beatles release to iTunes, Crisp responded, “Tomorrow’s just another day that hopefully I will forget.”
Unfortunately, one of his friends on Facebook, who was also a co-worker, showed all of Crisp’s posts to their boss, which led to his termination. Crisp attempted to file for unemployment, but was denied. The employment tribunal panel stated, “We take into account their position that the Facebook posts were not truly private and could in fact have been forwarded very easily with the claimant having no control over this process.”
According to a recent report by the BGR, Apple is planning to release a completely re-designed iPhone in 2012, and we won’t see the device around June or July of 2012, instead we will have to wait until the Fall of 2012. Apple launched the iPhone 4S in October 2011, so it would make sense for them to launch the new iPhone around the same time in 2012, I could be wrong on this but i would put money on it being called the iPhone 5.
