Limera1n jailbreaks the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and 4.1, makes folks very angry in the dev community

Looking for an jailbreak for your iPod, iPad or iPhone running iOS 4.1? Your chariot is named limera1n — assuming you’re willing to risk your device on a software developer showdown. The infamous Geohot just upstaged the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team by releasing a reportedly buggy beta exploit of his own, which you can find at our download link immediately below. It only works on Windows at the moment, hacks only official releases and iPhone 3GS isn’t supported right now, but it does claim to be an unpatchable, untethered release for those of you who appreciate what those terms mean. As you can imagine, rival developers aren’t terribly happy that Geohot’s back in the limelight. MuscleNerd (of the iPhone Dev Team) claims that limera1n will re-lock iPhones that were unlocked by his team’s ultrasn0w software, and recommends you skip limera1n. Developing… Limera1n jailbreaks the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and 4.1, makes folks very angry in the dev community originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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