For more than two months already, iPhone 4S jailbreak and unlock program was not yet released. However, the good news is that soon we’ll have both of these as soon as it will be ready for public release. This is because “LOTS of work left” and there are “huge missing pieces” which prevented its release.

Last week, a member of the Chronic-Dev Team had released a video showing an untethered jailbreak for an iPod touch running with iOS 5. @pod2g is known widely because of his discoveries in exploits that leads to jailbreaking an Apple device. In the video, he showed his iPod touch with iOS 5 jailbroken (with Cydia installed. He then rebooted the iDevice and still showed that the jailbreak is still intact. This means that he got an untethered jailbreak for his iPod touch.

His jailbreak were tested for some of the iDevices which includes iPod touch 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPhone 3GS that runs with iOS 5.0.1. This means that his jailbreak is fully working on devices that bare A4 chips. He is now currently working for the jailbreak of iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 which both used A5 chips. We hope for the soon release of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S.

As for the unlocking of an iPhone 4S, probably it will soon follow after the jailbreak will be officially released. This is backed up by @MuscleNerd of the Chronic-Dev team two weeks ago on his tweet that a “very promising “ unlock for the iPhone 4S is in the works.

To wrap things up, an untethered jailbreak and unlock programs will soon be released after the Dev team will finalize all the codes. Follow us for more details.

First of all, if you don’t have any idea about what Tiny Umbrella is all about, you can visit this previous article for more information. How important is an SHSH blob? For jailbreakers and anyone who cannot live with a non-jailbroken iPhone, this is very important.

Tiny Umbrella is the easiest and most convenient tool to use in saving an SHSH blob. This helps anyone to downgrade from a previous iOS version to an older one. Now, the latest version of Tiny Umbrella is updated to support the latest iOS 5.0.1, excluding the iPhone 4S. This is because during the restore process, Apple now signs firmware differently.

Even though there is still no working solution for restoring 5.x on iPhone 4S I have released a 5.01.00 so you can at least save 5.0.1 SHSH. I have added tentative support for at least saving 5.0.1 SHSHs for iPhone 4S but as of now we are unable to use them fully.

Thanks to the developer of Tiny Umbrella. For some point, this helps everybody to save their SHSH blobs even if there’s still no jailbreak available. You’ll never know the future.

In most cases, every carrier in the U.S. and other countries are probably looking to acquire the opportunity to carry out Apple’s iPhone 4S in their line of smartphones. But surprisingly, the 6^th largest wireless carrier in the U.S. has eventually rejected the chance in bringing the iPhone 4S.

U.S. Cellular CEO Mary Dillion said in the company’s third quarter earnings conference call that they turned down iPhone because it did not make sense for the company economically. She revealed that the U.S. Cellular had the opportunity to carry out iPhone but Apple’s “terms were unacceptable from a risk and profitability standpoint.” Another factor includes being the potential strain in the company’s network it will add to the decision although it still hopes to carry the iPhone in the future.

Before the U.S. Cellular announced the turned down, another company in Czech Republic also announced that they are dropping the iPhone in their line of smartphones after it was unable to come up a deal with Apple’s iPhone 4S. The company stated that the Apple’s “business terms” was the main reason for the discontinuation. Basically it almost coincides with the U.S. Cellular’s decision in turning down iPhone.

Meanwhile, Sprint had a $20 Billion deal with Apple to acquire the partnership for carrying out iPhone 4S and it is said to be until the year 2014.

On the October 4^th iPhone event entitled “Let’s Talk iPhone” held by Apple in their Cupertino Headquarters, newly appointed CEO Tim Cook announced that the iOS 5 will be available after 1 week and the iPhone 4S will start shipping in the 14^th of October. Now, the iOS 5 is ready for public downloads to everyone who wish to update their iDevices through iTunes.

A day before the official iOS 5 was launched; Apple’s www.iCloud.com was live ahead of time to give way for the latest operating system. The iOS 5 is necessary in order to use the wireless syncing of your iDevice and backup service at the same time enjoying the iCloud service that will soon replace MobileME for added security of your iDevices.

As of this time, only tethered jailbreak is available for the iOS 5. This means that you need to re-jailbreak every time you’ll reboot your iPhone, which is not the ideal type we are looking of. But it is great to immediately upgrade to the iOS 5 when you are not so very dependent on the jailbreak apps so you can now experience the latest improvements brought by the new iOS 5. New features include the new Notifications Center which is totally different from the iOS 4. This comes with a slick pull-down list of pending notifications and the other lockscreen notification which is very similar with the popular jailbreak tweak called “LockInfo.”

Here is a video that will take you to the great features of the iOS 5.

Finally, the much awaited event from Apple was finally over. Some are happy but others are disappointed due to the fact that there is no iPhone 5, not this year. Why is that happening? Only Apple has the answer.

As some had predicted, Apple has just launched the iPhone 4S. Although the physical appearance of the iPhone 4S is exactly the same with the iPhone 4, the improvement of what is inside make a lot of difference. Apple has made the iPhone 4S from some of the existing iPhone 4 parts like the aluminum casing and others.

First and foremost, the iPhone 4S brings out the iPad 2’s A5 Dual Core Processor. This provides to double the CPU speeds and dual core graphics that will result in up to 7X faster graphics that will work perfectly for high-resolution games.

As the current iPhone 4 users observation about the battery life, iPhone 4S has improved its battery even adding more features. The talktime is now up to 8 hours, 9 hours for WiFi browsing and 6 hours of 3G browsing.

The iPhone 4S antenna has been also improved to compete with some 4G capable smartphones in the market. Although it is still a 3G capable phone, it can download up to 14.4Mbps and 5.8Mbps in uploads just like the HTC Inspire 4G and Motorola Atrix.

The camera for the iPhone 4S is greatly improved to an 8-megapixel Auto Focus capable of capturing macro shots with 3264 x 2428 resolution photos. Improved photo time and face-detection capability, the new camera also can record 1080p video recording, noise reduction and image stabilization.

Overall, the iPhone 4S is quietly improved in the inside and not in the outside. Are you planning to buy the new iPhone 4S? Tell us what you think about it.