The Explorer edition of Google Glass has already landed in the hands of such developers who were among the earliest to sign up for it. Saurik, a rather well-known iOS hacker/developer, has claimed that he has jailbroken Google Glass.
Facebook recently rolled out a number of new features on its mobile apps. Facebook Home was specifically geared towards Android users, letting them have a system-wide Facebook experience on their devices. Now, a jailbreak tweak allows iOS users to have a similar experience on their iPhones.
Apple’s iOS is hailed as one of the best pieces of software to run atop mobile hardware. However, many jailbreak tweaks offer a lot of cool features that are not offered by Apple itself. For instance, a new jailbreak tweak ‘Peekly’ is now offering a really cool 2-page lockscreen theme for iOS devices.
The jailbreak tool for iPhone 5 and other iOS 6.1 devices was recently released by the team of hackers named evad3rs. In the tool, called evasi0n, the team essentially used some of the exploits present in iOS 6.1. In the latest beta release of its updated firmware, Apple seems to have patched at least some of these exploits.
Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6.1.2, fixing a Microsoft Exchange calender bug that surfaced after the release of iOS 6.1. But many iOS users may have been hesitating whether or not to update to iOS 6.1.2 due to a jailbreak availability issue. Yesterday, iOS jailbreaker Evad3rs has released Evasi0n 1.4 with support to iOS 6.1.2. The release has been announced on Twitter.
Filippo Bigarella, developer of popular jailbreak apps and tweaks like Springtomize, PasswordPilot Pro, CleverPin etc. has released a new jailbreak tweak called LivelyIcons. Bigarella says that he will be donating money to 2 different foundations who focus on pediatric cancer research.
iDevice jailbreaking tool Evasi0n was released Monday morning, February 4. Since the tool was released, evasi0n was downloaded more than 1.7 million times within the period of less than two days. The most astonishing news is around 7 million iOS users have installed evasi0n on their devices within four days since its releasing!
Recently, a team of iOS hackers, evad3rs, released the much-awaited untethered jailbreak tool for iPhone 5 and iOS 6 devices. The tool, Evasi0n, amassed millions of downloads without hours of being released but users have been experiencing some minor issues with it. So a version 1.2 has now been released which roots out a number of such bugs.