iPhone News Updated

Untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad running iOS 4.3 in beta

If you are a jailbreak fan, there’s finally some good news coming from the untethered jailbreak camp, led by the hackers at the Dev Team–an untethered jailbreak is running iOS 4.3 in beta.

According to iPhone Download Blog, hacker Stefan Esser (@iOn1c) has come up with a solution, posting a tweet saying: “The iphone-dev-team is already beta-testing the untether. So it is up to them to give you your tool of choice.”

Certainly if the Dev Team is running an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 4.3, we can expect something soon. In the three weeks since the iOS 4.3 (and iPad 2) release, there hasn’t been much exciting news coming from the jailbreak community. Until now, that is.

To back it up, renowned hacker MuscleNerd tweeted: “well @iOn1c’s untether is solid! Just working out overall 4.3.x JB issues and Cydia :)”

There’s still no official word on when the untethered jailbreak might be available, but signs are pointing to soon.

Will you jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch?

[Thanks: http://news.cnet.com]

Facely HD for IPhone and IPad

As I noted when I reviewed Social for the iPad, Facebook makes one of the most popular iPhone apps in the App Store, but to date the company hasn’t released a native iPad app. That’s created an opportunity for third-party developers to attempt to fill that iPad-sized Facebook void. Those developers aren’t just competing with each other; they’re competing with Mobile Safari, too.

I tried out Facely HD, a $3 app from G-Whizz Apps. The app, which previously was available under the Facebook Touch HD moniker, essentially provides a customized, skinned view of Facebook’s touch-based mobile site. And the end result is merely OK.

That touch-based mobile version of Facebook is pretty good to begin with, and Facely HD attempts to build on it. The app lets you tweak its colors and font. By default, it’s an elegant red, Helvetica mix, but you can go the hot pink, Zapfino route if you’re so inclined.

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