Now the period of this legislation is going to expire soon and if we, all those who love jailbreaking the devices, don’t act promptly, the copyright office might remove the exemption. If DMCA office doesn’t extent the exemption period, the jailbreaking of iPhone will no longer remain legal but iPad jailbreaking will even then be a legal process.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is a donor-funded non-profit organization and which fights for freedom primarily in the courts, tells us how we can help make iPhone jailbreaking legal again. All we have to do is to submit comments to the Copyright Office mentioning why the jailbreaking is important and how it can help us.

How You Can Help – The Copyright Office needs to hear from people who depend on the ability to jailbreak to write, use, and/or tinker with independent software (from useful apps to essential security fixes) for smartphones, tablets, and game consoles. You can submit comments online at this link.

Here are some questions you might want to address in your comments:

1. Which jailbreaking exemption are you supporting—smartphones/tablets, video game consoles, or both?
2. What’s your background (i.e., are you a developer, hobbyist, academic, independent researcher, user, etc.)?
3. What device do you want to ensure you have the legal authority to jailbreak?
4. Please explain why you want to jailbreak this device. What limitations do you face if you aren’t able to jailbreak it? Is there software you couldn’t run, computing capabilities you wouldn’t have, cool things you couldn’t do, etc.?
5. If you’re a developer, did an online application store or console manufacturer reject your app or game? If so, what reasons did they give?
6. Is there anything else you want to tell the Copyright Office?

Concrete examples will help show the Copyright Office why they should renew and expand the exemptions for jailbreaking. Send your comments to the Copyright Office athttp://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment-forms/. Where the form says “Comment number(s) of proposed classes of works to which you are responding,” enter a “3” if you’re writing about game consoles or a “5” if you’re writing about smartphones or tablets.

You can submit your comments by February 10 at 5PM Eastern time.

The jailbreak process with Absinthe is very simple.

Step 1: Back up your device with latest iTunes version.

Step 2: Download Absinthe. It is currently available for Mac only, but Windows version is also coming very soon.

Step 3: Launch Absinthe and press the “Jailbreak” button.

Step 4: Now wait. The phone will show “Restoring in Progress” message. Leave it connect until the restore completes.

Step 5: Once the restore is complete, you will see an absinthe icon on your homescreen. Launch it which will load greenpoison site for a while.

Step 6: Greenpoison site will reboot your device. After it loads back up, the cydia icon have replaced the Absinthe icon.

Now enjoy your untethered jailbroken iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

MuscleNerd provides us the latest update on Corona A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Corona A5 jailbreak will be available in the form of an app (software) just like Greenpois0n. The same jailbreak will also be incorporated in the next release of Redsnow.

Here we are quoting the exact post from iPhone Dev Team’s blog:

Ever since the December release of @pod2g’s “corona” untether for iOS 5.x on A4 and earlier devices, all eyes have been on the attempts to extend it to the A5 devices: the iPhone4S and iPad2.  Due to the combined efforts of @pod2g and members of the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team, we’re nearly ready for a general release!  All technical hurdles dealing with the underlying technique have been overcome, and it’s now all about making the jailbreak as bug free as possible.

On his blog, @pod2g playfully nicknamed the combined effort a “dream team”.  It’s an ironic name, because the past few weeks have left everyone involved with very little sleep and the opportunity to dream :) But we’re now near the final stages of testing the public version of the jailbreak.  Please allow time to clean up any remaining bugs in the jailbreak clients.

Jailbreak programs:

To be as flexible as possible, the A5 version of the corona jailbreak will take multiple forms:

• Chronic Dev have incorporated the overall flow into a GUI that runs on your Mac or PC
• iPhone Dev have incorporated the exact same flow into a command-line interface (CLI).  This will allow us to help users through individual steps of the jailbreak manually, to both help the user and help improve the overall flow.  Although the CLI will also allow the user to perform the entire jailbreak from beginning to end, we anticipate it will be more useful in debugging the occasional errors.  The CLI currently has over 20 individual options (in addition to the single “jailbreak” option) that should be useful during debug after the GUI release.
• Once all the bugs in the flow are worked out, we’ll also incorporate it into the redsn0w GUI (but still leave the CLI freely available too).  In order to maximize the chances of the jailbreak working for everyone, the redsn0w GUI will use native Apple iTunes libraries — this technique is slightly different than how the Chronic Dev GUI handles communications, and should provide nice combined coverage for all the odd computer configurations out there.

Firmware:

The supported firmware versions will be:

• iPhone4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
• iPad2: 5.0.1 (9A405)

iPhone4S owners looking to maximize their chances of achieving an eventual software-based carrier unlock should be staying at 5.0.  Everyone else should be at 5.0.1.  If you’re an iPhone4S owner who already updated to 5.0.1, it’s too late to go back down to 5.0, but if you’re on 9A406 it is possible to downgrade the BB by going to the 9A405 version of 5.0.1 while the window is still open.

Support:

The overall flow used by the GUI and CLI to inject the A5 corona jailbreak has never been done before, and there may be unforeseen problems once it’s released to the public.  It’s very important for you to sync your data, photos, and music before attempting any version of this jailbreak.  We’ll be watching the comments section below for signs of any widespread problems, but please be aware that you jailbreak at your own risk!

When:

As mentioned at the start of this post: when testing has shown most of the bugs have been fixed!

Please stay tuned to Shoutpedia and we will be publishing the step by step tutorial once it is out.

As we know untethered jailbreak breaks the Apple restrictions and allows us to install any third-party app and tweak, but it also contains some bugs. The current iOS 5.0.1 untehered jailbreak causes iBooks and some other apps to crash on launch.

Cororna 1.0-5 tweak available through Cydia store not only converts the tethered jailbreak into untethered but this time also fixes the iBooks and crashing of other apps.

If you have already jailbroken your device with Redsn0w, you can safely install the latest release of Corona on your device to fix the iBooks issues. For this purpose launch Cydia, go to Changes tab and tap the Refresh button on top. After the repos are refreshed, search for Corona and install it.

iPhone 4S Specifications vs iPhone 4 Specifications

Here are the features and specifications which are different from the previous model.

• iPhone 4S contains a new chip, A5. It’s a dual core graphics which means iPhone 4S is 7 times faster than iPhone 4. It can run some popular games which were previously available for xbox users only. In fact Infinity Blade 2 will be available for download on December 1st.
• iPhone 4S CPU is 2 times faster than iPhone 4S.
• Antenna position is changed. It can downloaded 14.4Mbps, even faster than iPhone 4.
• As predicted previously, iPhone 4S is a “World Phone”. It supports on both GSM and CDMA networks.
• Wow, iPhone 4S has got 8 megapixel camera now. That’s really huge improvement for photography lovers. It contains 60% more  pixels than iPhone 4. The new camera sensor allows us to gather 73% more light than iPhone 4 model.

• Siri: the intelligent assistant that helps you to do things by asking is also available on iPhone 4S. With the help of Siri we can send messages, set reminder, writer event entries, call anyone, search anything on Instant Wikipedia, dictate anywhere. It works with all built-in apps and supports English, French and German languages.

Check out the picture quality in this image to compare the camera lenses of both iPhone models.

Pricing:

Here are the new pricing details on contract.

• iPhone 3GS Free on contract
• iPhone 4 8GB $99
• iPhone 4S 16 GB $199
• iPhone 4S 32 GB $299
• iPhone 4S 64 GB $399

Availability:

iPhone 4S preorders start on October 7th and it will be released on October 14th.

We will post some high resolution images of iPhone 4S later.

Along with this information the Japan Store also posted two images of iPhone 4S, one in black color and the another one in white color. From these images it looks like the design of iPhone 4S is the same as of iPhone 4. But the antenna position is just like the CDMA version.

Every thing will be clear after few more minutes. Soon Tim Cook will announce the next generation iPhone 4S, its release date and price. The reports suggest that the price of iPhone 4S 64 GB will be equal to current iPhone 4 32 GB while the iPhone 4S 32 GB price will replace the price of iPhone 4 16 GB.

From the image one thing is very sure… iPhone 4S will be released in two colors, Black and White.

If you are interested to get the latest updates or watch the event live, please read our previous post that is about “How to Watch Let’s Talk iPhone event live”.

We will update this post and of course publish more about next iPhone, so stay tuned to Shoutpedia.

However, the image linked with “iPhone 4S” is same used by the iTunes for the older CDMA iPhone 4. It is being speculated that Apple is using this image for iPhone 4S as a placeholder and that it will replace the image after it announces the next generation iPhone on October 4th.

So, this internal code of iTunes confirms, at least, one rumor that the next generation iPhone will be a “World” iPhone which will work on both types of networks, as rumored few weeks ago. It also confirms that iPhone 4 will be shipped in two colors: White iPhone 4S and Black iPhone 4S.

iPhone 4S name recently appeared on the cases from third party manufacturers and supposedly hit the Apple’s internal inventory system with the name of N95. The recent rumors have also suggested that iPhone 5 may end up being the 4S itself.

Let’s see what type of cat comes out of the bag on October 4th, the date of Apple’s next “Let’s talk iPhone” event.

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A survey was conducted from around 1000 iPhone users which were all of 18 years of age or above on the topic that whether they will move on to get the iPhone 5 or stay on their previous preferred device.

You can have a look at this infographic, so as to better understand it.

So, on general, most of the current iPhone users are planning to upgrade to the new Apple product, iPhone 5. It looks like that the iPhone 5 will knock the sales of other smartphone out of the charts. Keep logged on our site and we will keep you updated on the latest news and rumors.

Just don’t forget to give us your opinion. Will you upgrade to or buy the iPhone 5 or not? (via Mashable)

iPhone 4S, is believed to have a better camera, 8 Mega Pixels. The design would be nearly the same, add or minus a change in its thinness, and a few minor changes. Another change in this iPhone, would almost certainly be switched out for the blazing fast A5.

Though there have been many rumors about a possible 4 inch touch screen, but it looks like Apple is sticking to its previous screen size. Another speculation is that the screen will be stretched out further across the device’s frame so shrinking the border around the display and allowing for as much as a .5 inch increase in viewing area.

Generally, this is not a bad deal, and can be the best choice for a good user-friendly and easy-tasking smartphone. According to a couple of reports, the iPhone 4S is believed to be launched in the 9th-15th October period.

Apple Insider has reported that

Apple is quietly denying requests for employee vacations during the second week of October, hinting that the company currently anticipates an influx of customers to its stores around that time related to availability of its new iOS 5 and fifth-generation iPhone products.

More specifically, the iPhone maker has in some locations blacked out vacation time for employees from October 9th through 12th and October 14th through 15th, according to people familiar with the matter.

So the blacked out time October 9 till October 12 could be the time when iOS 5 and the iCloud is released, while the 14-15 October vacation blackout can be explained as the release of the much awaited iPhone 5.

After the resignation of Steve Jobs, new CEO of Apple Tim Cook will be on stage this time to unveil iPhone 5.

So get ready even if you are not an Apple fan, as iPhone 5 is likely to be a Bang on the smartphone market. [via AppleInsider]

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