Absinthe the untethered jailbreak for A5 decides is finally out. Available for download at the following link. Devices should be running either iOS5 or iOS5.0.1. Program is now Mac only.

http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/absinthe-mac-0.1.2-1.zip

Update: greenpois0n blog is under heavy load, or probably just fixing database connections as of this writing.

I haven’t got it to work on my iPad2 yet, cos the upgrade is taking forever, and somewhere I read that you’ll need to load greenpois0n for the jailbreak to work too. Lets see how it goes.

Happy Cydia, and Happy Lunar New Year too. What a great present.

TIP: I had an issue with my iPad 2 where Absinthe just didn’t recognize it, so there’s no jailbreak button to press either. Solution apparently was just to use a different Mac. Interesting… I must have tried on the same Mac for like 20-30 times before I nearly gave up.

1) Ensure you have iTunes 9.2 on your computer. You need this version to upgrade and configure your iOS 4 device.
Just run the Apple Software Update program on either your Mac or PC.

2) Have at least an hour or two at hand before you do the upgrade. The iOS 4 file is a good 300-350MB. depending on your connection, it might take a while to download the upgrade to begin with.
Also, the amount of media that your iPhone has. The more media that’s being synced to your iPhone, the longer the process will take. Cos essentially, it needs to restore EVERYTHING back to your iPhone. My 32GB iPhone 3GS with about 17GB of data took a good half an hour to sync everything back, that’s minus the upgrade download time.

3) Check your device. If you’re using. A iPhone 2G or iPod Touch first gen, no go. The update won’t work a bit for you.
iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2nd gen will experience fewer features than that of the full iOS due to hardware limitations.

4) Don’t be surprised if your multitasking doesn’t exactly work when you try it out in your current apps. The apps itself has to ‘support’ multitasking for it to work. That being said, expect a LOT of individual updates for every app in your iPhone.

And last note, the iOS 4 that was just released a few hours ago, happens to be the exact same version that we developers got from Apple 2 weeks ago during WWDC. The build number is 8A293. So that probably means we can expect an update from Apple soon.

Though, this build version is definitely tons better than the first beta of iOS 4. That was just crap in terms of performance. Haha.

Meanwhile, enjoy your multitasking, folders, Home Screen backgrounds and spell checker among many other features of iOS 4.

Check out the new blog banner above for WWDC. Nice.

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1) iPhone OS 4

Pretty much guaranteed that Steve Jobs will spend quite a fair bit of time on this. Though it’s not confirmed when the final version will be released to the public. But Apple has been making a fair bit of effort in seeding new versions of the Software Development Kit (SDKs) to their developers. As it is, I’m also running the beta version of iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 on my own iPhone. Looks pretty awesome. In fact, using my friend’s iPhone and staring at a black background on the Home Screen looks so odd now.

Surely, there’ll be more features that will be revealed at WWDC keynote iteslf too.

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2) Mac Pro / 27″ Display

Considering that the last major update was in March 2009, the Mac Pro line is indeed quite overdue for updates. Possibly, some nice Intel Xeon 5600 6-core processor would be nice, seeing that their shipment dates had been delayed till June.

And also, a new 27″ Cinema Display that resembles the display on the current 27″ iMac too.

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3) Cloud-based iTunes / MobileMe

Both are unconfirmed, though there have been rumors going around that Apple is working on a wireless syncing option for the iPhone, (hence the disapproval of the recent 3rd party wireless sync App on the App Store). There could also be a free version of MobileMe being launched together with it.

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4) Apple TV

Rumors has it that Apple is working on a completely revamped Apple TV. Also said that the new device could be based on the iPhone OS 4, which would make perfect sense for them to launch it at the WWDC together with the iPhone OS 4.

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5) Mac OS 10.7

Reports has it that Mac OS 10.7 has been in use since October last year. Though, it seems quite unlikely that it’ll be announced during this year’s WWDC. Perhaps in Jan 2010?

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Other things include a possible Mac Mini refresh, and new features for Safari 5, including HTML 5 and stuff like that.

As we all know, Apple does keep a tight lid on pre-release products, until the actual day itself. Many have also said that this might just be a Chine-made model of the iPhone.

Not anymore.

The left one being the current iPhone 3GS. The one on the right, the new iPhone.

And come on, face it, China doesn’t counterfeit products that nicely. There’s always this slight hardware fault like a HUGE gap between the screen and the circuit board.

Looks kinda sleek to a certain extent. But then, on the other hand, it looks like one of those Windows Mobile phone. Too flat.

Gizmodo had the honor of breaking it apart, to see what’s inside. And here are a few new features.

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- Front-facing video chat camera (for video chats)
- Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
- Camera flash
- Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
- Improved display. (Might have a higher resolution than that of the iPhone 3GS)
- What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
- Split buttons for volume
- Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

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Kinda cool eh? Oh, apparently the battery is removable at some point.

Clearly it’s a prototype from Apple HQ. And catch this, it had an 80GB hard drive. I know, crazy right?

Gizmodo had put up a couple of video giving us a full view from all angles of this new prototype. Take a look.

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No one had actually had a chance to look at this phone in detail yet. Cos, as much as it was booting up when it was found, clearly Apple HQ has got a hold on this situation and disabled the device remotely. So it doesn’t do much except look pretty.

Obviously, Apple wants this unit back too! And are considering this unit stolen, and not lost. I mean, come on, seriously? It was found (read “found”) on the floor of a bar.