I bet that there are a number of iPhone 4S users out there that have been waiting for an unmetered jailbreak to land for the smartphone. The untethered jailbreak is now available for the iPhone 4S and it will work for the iPad 2 as well. The hack is from the Dev Dream Team and was launched Friday. The delay in launching a jailbreak for the device was in cracking the A5 processor and that bit was apparently not at all easy to accomplish. The jailbreak is called GreenPois0n Absinthe. There are a few catches, notably the untethered break is for Mac only. The other caveat is that it will only work on devices running iOS 5.0.1 and any update to iOS will lose your jailbreak. I bet the jailbreaks to support the new updates would come much faster now that the processor has been cracked. [ via SlashGear]

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For a little while this week Apple was worth a staggering $400 billion in market cap . That massive number put Apple as a company worth more than Greece and several other small countries. Samsung’s first patent suit over 3G tech against Apple has been shot down in Germany. The suit centered on alleged Apple infringement on 3G/UMTS patents that Samsung owns. A new jailbreak tool for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is incoming. The tool is called the Coronal A5 tool and it will let the user hack their device with the A5 processor inside.

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At a special event held at the Guggenheim museum earlier today, Apple released several new applications all related to education, school textbooks and bringing students and teachers together through a single device. Introduced by Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue, with demonstrations by the VP of iTunes Jeff Robbin and the VP of Productivity Software Roger Rosner,

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If you are thinking about getting a new iPhone 4S on AT&T, you will be paying more for data, but getting a bit more data too. AT&T has a three-tier system that ups the price on each tier by $5 monthly compared to old rates. The plans still don’t offer much data with a $20 plan giving 300MB, a 3GB plan for $30, and a 5GB plan for $50 monthly. That $50 monthly plan also includes tethering for the cost. Thankfully, if you don’t want more data and need the $5 monthly savings you can stay on your existing plan. Those not asking to stay will be rolled to the new plan. If you have an iPhone 4S and an iPod touch you can get Siri on your touch. In fact, getting Siri on the touch is very simple to do according to a geek going by AppleGordon. All you have to do is run a restore of the 4S backup to your touch and Siri comes along for the ride. We are talking the claim with some sodium though. If you try it out and your device survives, let us know.

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The iPhone 4S fueled heavy demand for Apple gear in Q4 2011. By December, tides had turned a bit and 45% of smartphone buyers opted for the iPhone 4S after only 30% were using the iPhone earlier in the quarter. Apple has its iWork chief handling the digital textbook project that could well change the way people in college use textbooks. I can’t wait to see what they have in store. It would be great to have digital school books on the iPad and iPhone.

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This is an early review of Ant Raid for the iPhone, it#8217;s released on the 26th January. Originally an iPad-only game, Ant Raid has now been shrunk down to fit on the iPhone by developers Prank Entertainment.  At its heart, Ant Raid is a tower defense game, but with real-time strategy overtones; however the attention to pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kh5D4rJXawJtxeENeOIFBL2tkCM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kh5D4rJXawJtxeENeOIFBL2tkCM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kh5D4rJXawJtxeENeOIFBL2tkCM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kh5D4rJXawJtxeENeOIFBL2tkCM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?a=emf3pf_vYTA:NYrd3kI0xFc:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iphone-freak/~4/emf3pf_vYTA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Samsung is making the A5/A6 processors for the iPhone and other gear in Texas. The company is reportedly seeking $1 billion in funding to boost production of the chips. The Thursday Apple event is tipped to be for product like “GarageBand for eBooks.” Sounds like a self-publishing system is on the way to me. That creepy Steve Jobs action figure has been canceled . The company set to build the toy has caved to legal threats and the feelings of the Jobs family.

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Nissan of all companies has rolled out a new case for the iPhone called the Nissan Scratch Shield . Any scratches to the case will be self-healed thanks to a special gel-like finish. The new Renew SleepClock for the iPhone will be coming this March for $199. The clock has sensors for monitoring user breathing and movement to log your sleep cycle. The Navy is thinking about using iOS devices to allow control of its drone RoboCopters. Having flown toy helicopters that use iOS devices fro control, I hope the Navy has better apps.

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We#8217;re back for our third and final round-up of the various new products related to the iPhone and iPad announced at CES 2012.  You can catch up with part one and part two by following the links, otherwise sit back and enjoy part three. iCade. We start with one of the most exciting reveals of the whole pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/p73H2QiIGGnXH7hxr2pVoYUd-rM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/p73H2QiIGGnXH7hxr2pVoYUd-rM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/p73H2QiIGGnXH7hxr2pVoYUd-rM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/p73H2QiIGGnXH7hxr2pVoYUd-rM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?a=ECLESMRuvc0:FjiwvC-6mWQ:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iphone-freak/~4/ECLESMRuvc0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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The launch of the iPhone 4S in China was a big deal and drew huge crowds to get the new smartphone. The Apple Store in Sanlitun decided the crowd was too large and opted to not open due to fear of customers and employees being hurt. That led to some in the crowd “abusing” store workers. After the Chinese launch issues that went on at the iPhone 4S launch with eggs thrown and violence one analyst said the violence was in part Apples fault . Canalys’ Nicole Peng said that Chinese fans don’t want to have to wait for new gadgets. NASA has launched a cool new app for the iPhone. The app is called Mars Images and shares photos from the Opportunity rover as soon as NASA gets them.

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