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iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent

By | July 5, 2010, 10:18pm PDT

Summary: An all-device jailbreak (like Spirit and Blackra1n) is right around the corner for the iPhone 4 and will probably arrive right after Apple’s 4.0.1 firmware update.

According to a tweet by a member of the iPhone Dev Team, an all-device jailbreak (like Spirit and Blackra1n) is right around the corner for the iPhone 4:

MuscleNerd: @xfsasx jailbreak for all devices at 4.0 is already handled by upcoming @comex release so, good time for iphone4 unlock stuff

Comex is the developer behind the jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, 3G, iPad and iPod touch.

The question isn’t if, but when, the i4 JB will be released. Since an iOS 4 update is due within a few weeks, it would only make sense for the devs to wait for that to hit before showing their cards. But I’d expect it soon thereafter though.

Why jailbreak? One major reason, for me anyway, is to run a personal WiFi hotspot on my iPhone 4.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

Talkback Most Recent of 10 Talkback(s)

  • Another reason:
    Multitask & Wallpaper enabled on iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G.
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    Mac Hosehead
    5th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    I'm confused by the screenshot in this article. What device is it, that has 5 icons across the screen?
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    nick.chadwick@...
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    @nick.chadwick@... its called five icon dock, if you jailbrek your iphone u can get it, i love it. its great for safari, mail, phone, messages and google voice icons all together,
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    bustin o'grady
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    @nick.chadwick@... It's a jailbroken iPhone running 5column/ 5 rows tweak,
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    Pete "athynz" Athens
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    @nick.chadwick@... you can do that to any iphone through cydia its called five icon dock
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    itattedgeek
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    WOW how lame.. another person posting some garbage on here just to generate traffic! the screen shot is a fake, its not 4.0 or the ip4, first it has an icon called "camera zoom" when the ip4 has a zoom camera, does not need an app to zoom. second where are the folders??? 4.0 comes automatically gives voice memo, compass, calulator and clock together in a folder. third, the calculator icon is WRONG, that icon is from 3.XX and last,what is with icy icon?? if im not mistaken its been gone for awhile!. wow dude this news you posted is also stolen from someone elses page which was posted over a week ago.. jason D. O'Grady you are a fraud!!! and i just busted you on it!!
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    bustin o'grady
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    @bustin o'grady Are you really this ignorant? Seriously? jason D. O'Grady you are a fraud!!! and i just busted you on it!! No you didn't bust him on it - iOS 4 is ALREADY jailbroken on the 3G iPhones and iPods... I had my 3G running iOS4 jailbroken the third day I had the OS installed... unless you think I'm lying as well. Look up Blackra1n as a jailbreaking method.

    4.0 comes automatically gives voice memo, compass, calulator and clock together in a folder Those may possibly (although every iPhone 4 I've seen has not) come together by default with the new iPhone 4 but they do NOT come that way with the new iOS... check your facts before you post otherwise you look like an idiot. The screenshot may not be and likely is not iPhone 4 but it more than likely is an earlier model running an earlier iOS version jailbroken... BTW ICY is the same thing as Cyida - an alternate app store one can only get via jailbreaking but was supposedly discontinued in Nov 2009... But the screenshot may or may not be from a 3x jailbroken device but that screenshot does not change the fact the iOS 4 jailbreak already exists and the jailbreak for iPhone 4 is on the way - but don't let those facts stand in the way of your trolling.
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    Pete "athynz" Athens
    6th Jul 2010
  • Five Icons wide?
    Five Icons wide?
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    james@...
    6th Jul 2010
  • RE: iPhone 4 jailbreak imminent
    They shouldn't have ever made it at&t only. That was a bunch of ********.
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    ms7168
    9th Jul 2010
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    11th Oct

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