How to Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on Linux

The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 4S and Apple iPad 2 devices.  As you all know, the Chronic Dev Team finally released the highly anticipated version of Absinthe jailbreak tool for the Linux platform. With Absinthe users can easily untether jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices powered by the Apple A5 chip. With today's tutorial we will teach you, step by step, how to jailbreak an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 device on Linux. Requirements:iPhone 4S with firmware 5.0/5.0.1 iPad 2 with firmware 5.0/5.0.1 libimobiledevice: tar.gz (1.0.6 Stable) [sources] [409 KB] Ubuntu (Repository) [ubuntu_deb] [0 KB] Red Hat/Fedora/Mandriva/openSUSE RPM noarch [rh_rpm] [0 KB] tar.gz (1.1.0 Development) Absinthe ATTENTION: Make sure you backup your device...

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Xiaomi MIUI ROM and Apps Going Open Source

Chinese company Xiaomi decided to go open source with its highly-acclaimed MIUI ROM and other Android apps. There are no details on the reasons behind the company's decision, but in the end this will benefit Android users. The company's ROM and other applications are being made available for the general public starting today via GitHub. Coincidence or not, this is the same git repository used by the CyanogenMod team. Although not all Xiaomi apps are now available for download for the masses, the Chinese company promised full access to all its software in the near future. Those unfamiliar  with Xiaomi and their MIUI ROM should know that this is one of the few custom ROMs that can really turn and Android smartphone into a unique...

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Windows Phone 8 to Appeal More to PC Vendors

Later this year, Microsoft is expected to bring to the market the next version of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Phone 8 (codenamed Apollo). The platform is expected to bring along a wide range of improvements when compared to the current flavor of the OS, such as support for multi-core application processors, microSD memory cards and for NFC connectivity, among others.  However, even if the platform will be offering capabilities similar to those included in Google’s Android operating system, mobile phone makers might not flock to launch devices powered by it.  Instead, PC makers around the world are expected to make such devices available, a recent article on DigiTimes notes.  Nokia will bring to the market handsets...

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HTC Flyer Gets Its First Ice Cream Sandwich Port, Unofficial

HTC's first try on tablets, the Flyer was initially launched with Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board. After many months of waiting, the tablet has finally received its Android 3.2 Honeycomb upgrade. For the time being, it's unclear if HTC will roll out an Ice Cream Sandwich update for HTC Flyer in the future. However, those who already purchased the tablet and consider themselves savvy enough to flash an unofficial ICS ROM can do so courtesy to the folks over at XDA Developers. XDA forum member AidenM has just ported successfully an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM on the HTC Flyer. Apparently, this is the first unofficial Android 4.0 ROM for HTC's tablet, so we should assume that it does come with at least a few bugs and features that...

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Windows Phone Tango, Tango 2 and Apollo in 2012

Before the end of this year, we should see three different flavors of Windows Phone being delivered to devices, recent reports suggest.  First of them will be Tango, which is said to arrive in the March-April timeframe, and which should bring support for 120 languages and for entry-level hardware into the mix.  Next, we’ll see Tango 2 being released on devices sometime in mid-2012, yet info on what it will bring new to the ecosystem hasn’t been unveiled as of yet.  In fall of 2012, Microsoft will push out the Windows Phone 8 platform version, codenamed Apollo. In early 2013, large volumes of WP8 devices are expected to arrive on the market, DigiTimes reports.  One of the companies committed to deliver Windows Phone 8 devices...

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Nokia to Kill Symbian with N8 Successor

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will send the Symbian platform to the graveyard sooner than originally announced, if the latest reports on the matter are to be believed.  There will be only one new Symbian model pushed to shelves from Nokia, and it will arrive as the successor of the Nokia N8 flagship phone.  Nokia will continue to deliver updates to existing customers, but it does not plan on making available for purchase new models running under the platform, The Register reports.  Most probably, the handset vendor will continue producing existing Nokia Belle devices, but it has put an end on the development of new models.  A year ago, Nokia announced plans to adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its primary operating...

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HP Promises Windows 8 Tablets, x86 Configurations Arrive First

Hewlett Packard is one of the manufacturers set to bring to the market tablet PCs running under Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 platform.  The company’s CEO Meg Whitman confirmed this in a recent interview with CRN, but did not offer specific info on when devices might hit stores. One thing that she did confirm, however, was that products featuring the x86 architectures will be released before ARM-based ones.  “We have to have a tablet offering. We will be back in that business. We're coming back into the market with a Windows 8 tablet, first on an x86 chip and then maybe on an ARM chip,” she said.  Tablet PCs will help the company remain at the top of the PC market, though Meg Whitman is confident that the vendor could remain...

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ASUS SeaShell 11.6-Inch AMD-Based Netbook Set for March

Netbooks may have lost most of their fame, but ASUS still thinks there are enough people out there who might want one, especially when that “one” has an AMD APU at its core.  Advanced Micro Devices may not have paid much mind to the mobile PC market over the years, but that changed when its Heterogeneous Computing architecture (previously known as Fusion) debuted.  With the E-Series of APUs (accelerated processing units) out and about, the Sunnyvale, California-based company slowly began to secure design wins.  One of those design wins is the ASUS Eee PC SeaShell 1225B.  This portable consumer electronics device measures 11.6 inches in diagonal and has a screen resolution of 1376 x 768 pixels.  An AMD E450 APU acts...

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Deep Cool Gamer Storm Assassin CPU Cooler Gets Ready to Hit Retail

Announced back in May of last year, Deep Cool’s Gamer Storm Assassin CPU cooler is now getting ready to hit retail for the equivalent of $80 US, about 61 EUR.  Taking only a short look at the Assassin, this wouldn't appear to differentiate itself too much from the all the other twin tower coolers available in the market, but, moving closer, one gets to see that the company went with a unique heatsink concept which uses a diamond-shaped pattern. While Deep Cool didn't reveal too much about this technology, it appears that its role is to lower the turbulence produced by the installed fans. In turn, this could help lower the system's noise as the Assassin can be fitted with no less than three cooling fans. Only two fans are shipped together...

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Super Talent Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Works at 1866MHz

Memory maker Super Talent has just announced the introduction of a new line of high- speed DDR3 memory compatible with quad-channel desktop computers. The Super Talent memory modules will be available both in a kit form and as standalone DDR3 sticks, but no matter the option one choses, all of these feature similar specs with speeds starting at 1600MHz and going up to 1866MHz. No matter they speEd they run at, all the modules come with support for XMP 1.3 profiles, require 1.5V in order to operate and use Super Talent’s special high-profile memory heatspreader which should help the memory modules run cool even when they are overclocked. Extreme Memory Profile, or XMP for short, is an SPD extension developed by Intel for DDR3 DIMMs to encode...

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