iPhone News Updated

Non-camera iPhone from M1 now official

Singapore operator M1 has made its non-camera iPhone official. This comes a week after we first discovered the product pages for the devices on the company’s Web site, which were most likely put online prematurely and subsequently pulled.

As reported earlier, the iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S devices will cost S$49 ($38) more than the original versions. Each unit is bundled with a two-year plan from the operator–there’s no option to buy one at full retail price without a service plan.

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iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Receive First Untethered Jailbreak

Good news for wannabe iPhone jailbreakers: The Chronic Dev Team and pod2g have finally released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

“But wait,” you ask. “Haven’t we been able to jailbreak these devices for months now?”

No. Don’t confuse iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreaking with iOS 5 jailbreaking – apples and oranges, thanks to the inclusion of Apple’s new dual-core A5 processor in these two devices. Prior to yesterday’s release of the “Absinthe A5″ jailbreak, there has been no working, public hack for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Other Apple devices running iOS 5 were first treated to a tethered jailbreak in late October, all of one week or so after the launch of iOS 5, with a full untethered jailbreak not arriving until late December.

“Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world’s first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2,” writes the Chronic Dev Team.

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