iPhone News Updated

Now you can jailbreak an iPad 2, iPhone 4S on Windows too

A day after the first tools for jailbreaking an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S were released for Mac users, the iPhone Dev Team has updated their utility to work with Windows.

The process is a bit more involved since it relies on a command-line utility that walks you through the process one step at a time for debugging purposes. But if you don’t want to wait for the Windows version of the tools to get a graphical user interface, now you don’t have to.

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iPhone and Android Growing Like Crazy. Downloads up 83%, Phone Activation up 142% from Last Year

Mobile markets love Christmas. Smart phone activations go through the roof, and app downloads explode once the holiday season rolls around. Yet while sales boom at the end of every year, 2011′s holiday sales went off like an atomic bomb.

Key indicators saw the iPhone app market up 83% from November 2010 to November 2011. 6.8 million smart phones (iOS and Android) were activated on Christmas day alone! That’s a 142% increase from last December 25th. Market analysts expect one billion app downloads to be tallied from the 25th to the first of January. This kind of growth in smart phones seems absolutely insane in isolation, but it’s part of an exponential rise in mobile devices that has continued unabated since their arrival. 2011 was the biggest year in history for smart phones, and it looks like every new year in the future will be able to say the same. Billions more people are poised to take advantage of the power of iPhone and Android devices – get ready for a global society where smart phones are absolutely everywhere.

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