Why We Won’t (Officially) Get Siri On Our iPhone 4

We all know that Siri is available exclusively on the iPhone 4S. There were a lot of speculations why Apple didn’t release it for the iPhone 4 as well, because as we can see with Spire, it works perfectly fine. CNET now reported that the A5 processor used in the iPhone 4S contains a special noise-reduction circuitry:Apple A5

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GreenPois0n Absinthe A5 - iOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak Is Available Now!

Greenpois0n Absinthe A5 Jailbreak

The Chronic Dev Team just released the corona untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S. On their blog, the Chronic Dev Team explains how hard it was to jailbreak the A5 processor.

You can download the Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak for Mac right now, Windows and Linux versions are available later.

Now we just have to wait until someone releases a tweak for the iPhone 4S that reads the Siri keys directly from the iPhone 4S to make porting Siri to the iPhone 4 easier.

iPhone 4S Untethered Jailbreak Demonstration (Video)

It looks like we are getting closer to a release of the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. One reason why the hackers have to be very careful this time is because if there is a major bug in the jailbreak, people might not be able to restore to 5.0.1 if Apple already released iOS 5.1 (iOS 5.1 closes the Corona untether). Continue reading

Saurik Supports The iPhone 4S And iPad 2 Untethered Jailbreak Team

Yesterday, @MuscleNerd and @pod2g tweeted that they made some progress in the A5 jailbreak. There is still no ETA, but they’re moving forward. It also looks like @saurik has also joined their team. For those of you who don’t know saurik, he’s the guy behind Cydia. Continue reading