Apple iPhone Celebrates Its Fifth Birthday!

I never thought that this would be something I’d ever say, but the device that changed my life celebrates its fifth birthday today. Yes, the retroactively named original, or ’2G’ Phone was first announced by an enthusiastic Steve Jobs during a keynote speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9th 2007.

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 iOS 5 Jailbroken!

MuscleNerd, one of the key members of the iPhone dev-team, has tweeted that the iPhone 4S has been jailbroken on iOS 5!



He also posted a video of jailbroken iPad 2 running iOS 5! Here:



This is a "very preliminary" jailbreak and there are still ways away from seeing a public release. Stay tuned for more!

Sony is to produce Steve Jobs movie

Macrumors has posted that Sony is trying to pair up with Aaron Sorkin, the Writer behind The Social Network, to produce Steve Jobs movie based on Walter Isaacson's book

Sony is moving forward with a Steve Jobs movie based on Isaacson's book. And one of the writers being courted by producers to pen his story, according to a person who was briefed on the project but not authorized to speak about it publicly, is Aaron Sorkin, Hollywood's chronicler-in-chief of the complicated visionary. 

The "Moneyball" and "Social Network" writer was said by the person to be considering the prospect but had made no decisions. Sony and a Sorkin representative declined to comment on the writer's potential involvement.

Steve once asked Aaron to write a movie for Pixar, Sorkin declined because he didn't "think he could make inanimate objects talk." 

STEVE: Once you make them talk they won’t be inanimate. 

ME: The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar.

Steve Jobs' biography is headed toward the top of Amazon's list top-selling book for 2011, currently ranked #12 

New MacBook Pro Lineup Revealed

9to5mac reported that the new MacBook Pro lineup will be released as early as next week. The prices will be the same as the current generation's prices

New 13-inch MacBook Pros:

• 2.4 GHz dual-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 500 GB hard drive, SD card slot
• 2.8 GHz dual-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive, SD card slot

New 15-inch MacBook Pro:

• 2.2 GHz quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 500 GB hard drive, SD card slot
• 2.4 GHz quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive, SD card slot

New 17-inch MacBook Pro:

• 2.4 GHz quad-core processor, 4GB, 750 GB hard drive, SD card slot, Express Card slot

Built-to-order configurations:

• 15-inch: 2.5 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive (faster 7200 RPM)
• 17-inch: 2.5 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive (faster 7200 RPM)

Jailbreak iOS 5 Semi-Tethered

Today Redmondpie reports that a new cydia package called "SemiTether" jailbreak for iOS 5 is now available on BigBoss repository which basically helps reboot tethered-jailbroken iDevices without having to use RedSn0w. The bad thing is that Safari, Mail, Cydia, and jailbreak apps installed on your devices will not be able to use. BigBoss describes it:

it is protection for if your device reboots while you’re on the road.

Follow this link to see the written tutorial
http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-5-semi-untether-iphone-ipad-ipod
-touch-tutorial/


The full untethered jailbreak isn't available yet. Chronic Dev-Team is working hard on it.


Stay tuned for more

Steve Jobs' biography is on the shelf early at WHSmith Heathrow airport

The biography is supposed to be release on October 24. Or at Amazon here.

Steve Jobs: "I'm going to destroy Android"

Steve Jobs' reaction to HTC's 2010 introduction of an Android phone that shared many features of the iPhone. Jobs told Isaacson that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Jobs met with Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt who once was in Apple's board of directors, he told Schmidt he wasn't interested in setting for any amount of money. Instead Jobs told Schmidt, "I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."


Jobs' attitude against Android helps explains the lawsuits that have come from Apple against both HTC and Samsung. Both legal actions have resulted in countersuits as well as attempts to ban sales of devices around the world.