iOS 5 jailbreak is already here; Freaks not surprised

If the latest update to CyanogenMod not enough to keep you this week occupied, here is another message for phone hobbyist: you can now jailbreak iOS 5 with the Redsn0w version 0. 9. 9 (b) 5.

This new version of Redsn0w gets you a tethered jailbreak the developer team blog notes that this update "[s] the public URLs for the IPSW files contain." First-time iOS5 Jailbreakers must in this way to deliver the IPSW file manually. The dev-team also says that to ensure that the apps for jailbroken iPhones still work, so casual hobbyists want to wait a little longer this jailbreak for developers.

The hack works on all iOS devices or - Yes, you guessed it - the iPad 2 and of course the iPhone-4S. You must you limit run redsn0w work devices on a computer running the jailbreak of magic-the only exception, which is the so called old bootrom iPhone 3GS.

The jailbreak is not recommended for those to get their unlockable baseband (all iPhones have a baseband-it is half way of the OS for the GSM-modem.) To hack an iPhone, hold the phone features, you need to the GSM and iOS, therefore Unlocakbale baseband hack.).

To download Redsn0w for Mac and Windows now, visit the iPhone developer team blog post, and read the instructions to run the jailbreak on the Redmond pie.

[iPhone Dev team on Redmond pie]

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Leaked Sales Screenshots: Amazon's Kindle Fire Already Burning Up?

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Now that we've got this iPhone-not-5 business out of the way, eyeballs are back on Amazon's Kindle Fire over a leaked sales report. Here's the report's short version: People are preordering the thing like mad.

Take with a pinch or two of sodium—the report comes from a tech blog dubbed Cult of Android, after all—but word is would-be Kindle Fire owners are snatching up Amazon's Android-based tablet to the tune of 2,000 units an hour on average, which adds up to slightly less than 50,000 a day.

(MORE: Could Amazon's Kindle Fire Dethrone Apple's iPad?)

The blog's trumpeting several screen grabs from "a verified source" within Amazon, grabs that depict the company's "internal inventory management system," called Alaska, or "Availability Lookup and Sku Aggregator."

According to the charts in the grabs, the Kindle Fire's already pre-sold a quarter of a million tablets. Do the math—the Kindle Fire ships in roughly six weeks—and assuming demand continues at that rate, you come up with a number approaching 2.5 million preorders by the time the Fire goes on sale, November 15.

(LIST: Tablets: 'Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?')

Could we be looking at an iPad 2 sales record upset? Perhaps. Estimates are the iPad 2 sold between 2.4 and 2.6 million units during its first month (after clearing 1 million during its opening weekend). If Kindle Fire pre-sales continue at the 50,000-a-day rate, right up to November 15, Amazon would easily surpass the estimated iPad 2 opening weekend sales figure during the Fire's first 24 to 48 hour gallop out the door.

But, and we're talking a huge but here, that assumes the chart above is accurate and representative, and that the current blistering preorder rate is sustainable through mid-November.

MORE: Amazon Unveils $199 'Kindle Fire' Android Tablet, $99 'Kindle Touch'

Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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