One More Tap

chaofan (via iPod touch Fans) posted a very good take on the current iPod touch jailbreaking landscape: there’s no jailbreak for the iPod touch 2G devices, yet.

Instead, he suggests that everyone just go ahead and use the iPod touch, as it is. Play your music, watch your videos. Download a game of two and see what makes the latest iPod touch ‘the funnest iPod ever‘. An iTunes account opens up all the possibilities of the above, for free.

Heck, if you are a workout freak, get the Nike + iPod Sport Kit and check out your runs!

written by xcool \\ tags: 2.2, Firmware, iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak, OS

Just within days after iPhone firmware 2.2 was released, the team at iPhone dev has done it again. They have just released both the PwnageTool and QuickPwn for iPhones and first generation iPod touch devices.

The team further detailed that the 2.2 update also upgraded the baseband. Thus, to achieve a jailbreak and also ensure that future soft-unlock options are available, users would need to use the PwnageTool to create a custom IPSW file that preserves the 2.1 baseband but also installs the software functionality of the 2.2 update.

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written by xcool \\ tags: 2.2, Firmware, iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak, OS

Apple has finally released the rumored update for the iPhone and iPod touch. The firmware is currently tagged as 2.2/5G77 for the iPhone/iPod touch 1G and 2.2/5G77a for the iPod touch 2G. The update which weighs in at about 246MB can be downloaded and installed via iTunes.

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written by xcool \\ tags: 2.2, Firmware, iPhone, iPod touch, OS

News of the next firmware revision, version 2.2, for the iPhone and iPod touch (collectively iPhone OS) has been spreading around the interweb. Greek iPhone site, iPhoneHellas.gr claimed that the new firmware shall land on November 21st 2008, based on their “very reliable” source. Gizmodo tipped in to say that iPhoneHellas is “reliable”, while MacRumors mentioned that they had very little experience dealing with news from the said site.

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written by xcool \\ tags: 2.2, Firmware, iPhone, November 21, OS, Rumors