For all you iPhone 4S users stuck on the official iOS , your wait is very nearly over as the A5 chip is now confirmed as being jailbroken. The combined forces of pod2g and the other big guns in the ‘iOS security research field’ have managed to break the A5 out of the sandbox. This effectively means that the jailbreakers have managed to gain full access to the A5 chip that powers the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 and have been able to make changes to the source code outside of the development area.

A timescale for the newest jailbreak is still not confirmed but now we know it is possible, it shouldn’t be too far away.

Cracking the A5 chip may even open up the way for a Siri port to earlier iPhones and iPads however it looks like the bigger More >