iOS 6.1.4 Jailbreak With Cydia Running Successfully On iPhone 5 [IMAGE]

Evasi0n jailbreak which brought forward the first ever untethered jailbreak solution on devices running iOS 6.x was patched by Apple in iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 firmware releases. Last week we reported that an untethered 6.1.3 jailbreak was indeed possible, but was not publicly available since it needed some work. Today, we have even more good news, this time for those running iOS 6.1.4 on the iPhone 5.

iOS 6.1.4 was released back in May for iPhone 5 users only and it brought forward a minor bug fix. The small update, which weighs in at 11.5MB, was unjailbreakable, until now.

Developer Winocm, who achieved the untethered jailbreak on iOS 6.1.3 last week, tweeted out an image today of iOS 6.1.4 running Cydia on an iPhone 5. Details as usual are scarce at this very moment. We can only assume that progress is being made and Winocm’s exploit is indeed capable of jailbreaking iPhone 5 on the aforementioned firmware.

Cydia on iOS 6.1.4 (GSM iPhone 5)

For those who are eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak, and are completely uninterested in Apple’s new flat icons in iOS 7, it is highly recommended that you ignore any software update at this point for your iOS device and wait for further confirmation on the progress being made on the untethered iOS 6.1.3 / 6.1.4 jailbreak.

Cydia on iOS 6.1.4 (CDMA iPhone 5)

If you’re already running iOS 6, all the way up to iOS 6.1.2, you’re on the greener side of the fence. You can jailbreak iOS 6 using Evasi0n on all iOS devices capable of running the said firmware.

We will keep you updated as soon as we hear more regarding this, so stay tuned.

Update x1: Published to a Ghostbin share, Winocm has now offered up some of the code required to make the jailbreak work for iOS 6.1.4, and we’ve heard reports of people managing to do just that. The downside here is a rather large one though – it’s not like most public jailbreaks.

Cydia on iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3

Anyone wanting to download an executable and have their iPhone jailbroken in seconds is out of luck we’re afraid. Instead, Winocm’s code is just part of the magic required to get Cydia installed on an iPhone, and users will have to use their own kernel exploits in order to get the ball rolling. That’s obviously no mean feat, so we don’t think that this is going to be the start of a jailbreaking phase where everyone rushes out to get their iOS 6.1.4 devices jailbroken. Still, it’s a start.

Even with iOS 7 just around the corner, many people would be happy to stick with the last 6.x release if it meant that they could keep their beloved jailbreak, and Winocm seemed to have all the answers. Today, he shared those answers, but they’re not quite all you’ll need.

Former Nokia Employees Create Newkia With The Aim To Build Android Phones

Nokia has been one of the leaders in smartphone innovation for a long time, before the Finnish giant lost out to iPhone and Android, so much so that the whole hardware division of Nokia was acquired by Microsoft just a few days ago. I have personally always strongly believed that Nokia would’ve done well to keep up with the changing market trend and combined their remarkable hardware with Google’s open source Android to make the perfect smartphone. While that never happened owing to the company’s partnership with Microsoft, it might come true now, as Nokia’s Asia Pacific (former) CEO, Thomas Zilliacus, has spun off a new company from Nokia with the aim to do just that.

The new company, named Newkia (pun might be intended), comprises a slew of other former Nokia employees who have one goal in mind – build better Android phones. Zilliacus claims that he’d been aiming to buy out Nokia for a while now, but had never been able to raise the required funds on his own, and certainly never enough to outbid the Redmond giant. However, now, with the start of his own Newkia, he believes they’ll be easily able to raise enough capital, owing largely to the fact that a lot of potential investors see a lot of future for a combination of Nokia-standard hardware with Android’s open source nature.

Newkia’s plans aim towards making the company functional and productive by 2014, which can potentially imply a Newkia device out and about in the market as early as summer next year. Wishful thinking? Maybe, but it doesn’t hurt to speculate.

The interesting aspect to the whole story is the fact that technically, Microsoft’s acquisition remains restricted to Nokia’s hardware manufacture division, exclusive of Nokia’s patent portfolio. The Redmond company holds licensing to use Nokia’s patents, sure, but at the same time, with the current conditions of the deal, cannot prevent other companies from licensing those as well. This could mean that we would one day see an Android phone touting Nokia’s PureView technology, which is unarguably the best camera on a smartphone to date.

Historically, it has always been the case for even manufacturers like Samsung and HTC, who have, at some point, tried their luck with Windows Phone, to gain more success with Android over WP. What remains to be seen is whether Nokia would license such high-end patents to a potential direct competitor of Microsoft past the deal that has already taken place. We’ve seen weirder things happen in the past, so who knows. Time will tell.

(via: Cnet)

iPhone 5C Render Running iOS 7 Gets Virtual Hands-On Treatment [VIDEO]

We are now less than 72 hours away from the iPhone 5S and 5C announcement, and while it’s understandable that all the fuss will no doubt be about the new flagship handset coming out of Cupertino, it’s arguable that the most interesting device that we expect to be announced on Monday is the new budget iPhone.

Set to be dubbed the iPhone 5C, presumably due to its choice of colors, the new handset is basically an iPhone 5 in new clothes if the rumors are to be believed. The iPhone 5 is still one of the best smartphones on the market as far as we’re concerned, so the idea of it being a budget device in a couple of days is blowing our minds a tad.

Throw in some lovely looking colors and what is quite possibly going to be a more palm-friendly chassis than the iPhone 5/5S body has turned out to be, and we find ourselves more interested in seeing what Apple has in store for those not wanting to splash the cash on a premium handset this September.

So, with all that in mind, we sat down all gooey-eyed to watch a new rendered video which depicts what the iPhone 5C may or may not look like when it’s running iOS 7 as well as a collection of popular apps. We’ve got to say that it looks stunning in the video, and if the colors look as good in real life as they do on YouTube, then we can’t wait to cast our eyes upon them.

Created by Maxim Khoroshev, the video is well worth a watch, especially if the iPhone 5C holds any kind of intrigue for you, just as it does us. That’s not to say we won’t be in line for an iPhone 5S in a couple of weeks – it just means we’ll look at the 5C while we’re waiting to pay!

As mentioned before, the new Apple smartphones will be announced at Apple’s September 10th iPhone event.

Thanks, Den for sending this in!

Android 4.4 KitKat Contest Now Live! You Can Win The New Nexus 7 And Play Store Credit, Here Are The Details

As most of you will know by now, the next version of Android is to be called KitKat, and the maker of the popular sweet snack has just unwrapped its contest as part of the promotional collaboration. Hitherto, the landing page has simply displayed a KitKat themed page, but now, the competition is very much up and running. With one thousand Nexus 7 2013 tablets to be won, and a plethora of other prizes including Google Play Store credit and KitKats, it’s definitely not a competition to be missed.

To get involved, competitors must purchase KitKat bars featuring the Android mascot (as pictured below), inside which will be a special code. By entering the code into the special landing page over on the Hershey’s Web site, entrants then find out if they have won something.

Of course, most will be looking to grab the new Nexus 7, which is by far the most appealing prize on offer. But still, $5 of Google Play credit is not to be baulked at, and with some 150,000 lots of credit available to competition winners, you could tot up quite a handsome sum for use to purchase apps, games, music, and other such niceties found over at the Big G’s content portal.

The decision to name the next version of Goolge’s mobile OS as Android 4.4 KitKat is rather bizarre, to say the least, and with the mobile industry completely fooled into thinking it was about to tuck into some Key Lime Pie, Android KitKat represents another bump containing perhaps rudimentary updates. At this point, Google hasn’t released any details aside from the release bracket, but it will certainly be interesting to see what the search giant has in store – especially so soon after the roll out of Android Jelly Bean 4.3.

The Nexus 5 is also the subject of much coverage at the moment, and is expected to be announced very soon, but until we hear anything official, you’re best off picking up few KitKat bars and hoping to get in among some of the good prizes available. Plus, KitKats are good. Not as good as the all-new Nexus 7 with its uber-sharp display, I grant you that, but still delicious nonetheless!

Coming back to the contest; once you’ve grabbed hold of the aforementioned Android-themed KitKat bar, head over to: hersheys.com/kitkat/android/ and enter your code to see if you’ve won anything or not.

Good luck!

Research Reveals Smartphones Cause ‘Digital Dementia’

If you ever wondered why your memory seems to be getting worse, then according to one South Korean doctor the reason may just be that smartphone you’re so attached to.

In a world where we all rely on smartphones, computers and the Internet to run our lives,  Dr. Byun Gi-won, a South Korean expert in cognitive problems related to computer and smartphone usage at the Balance Brain Center in the country believes that the very technology we use to help us remember things may actually be part of the reason we forget them in the first place.

Cases of so-called digital dementia manifest themselves as memory deficits, lack of emotion and attention disorders that have historically been blamed on things such as video games. The humble smartphone is now finding itself at the center of research being conducted with the aim of better understanding digital dementia and the part our modern technological lives has to play in it.

Byun Gi-won told a newspaper report that our reliance on smartphones is hampering the balanced development of our brains and, as if we predicted it a few paragraphs earlier, games are also to blame. With South Korea’s heavy use of both smartphones and gaming devices across the board, the country is certainly well placed to provide insight into what effects it may have.

Gi-won said: “Heavy [technology] users are likely to develop the left side of  their brains, leaving the right side untapped or underdeveloped.” As eluded to by that comment, smartphones are not the only potential cause for digital dementia, but any technology could potentially be the reason that some of us here at Redmond Pie can barely remember our own phone numbers, let alone those of the people we need to contact. We’ve been using technology throughout our adolescent lives and as a result, apparently, are particularly susceptible to the affliction as our brains were still developing during prolonged reliance on, and use of, technology.

So, if your memory is getting worse it might be time to put that phone down and pick up a book. So long as you can remember where you left it, of course.

What do you think about the research? Agree with it or not? Let us know in the comments section below.

(via: TheTelegraph)

Iron Man 3 Movie With iTunes Extras Now Available To Download, JARVIS App For iPhone Releasing Next Week

Users of iPhones come in all shapes and sizes, but when you find a proper hardcore fan of Apple’s smartphone then the chances are pretty good that they’re also rather keen on a spot of science fiction. We’d have to count ourselves firmly in that category, and we’d definitely argue that it’s no bad thing.

It’s for that reason that a new app with a particular movie tie-in may do quite well, but let’s start at the beginning.

Fans of the Avengers movie last year will probably already have seen the new Iron Man 3 movie. It’s not brand spanking new, no, but it’s new enough to be landing on iTunes in the last day or so, and it’s available complete with iTunes Extras, meaning you’ll get more than just the standard movie when you hand over your $20. Sweet.

What really caught our attention about all this though is the fact that the folks at Marvel weren’t content to just launch the movie and then sit back, raking in the money as people throw it at them. Instead, they also began work on a JARVIS-themed iPhone app, with the thing apparently being released next week.

For those that have been living in a cave for the last few years, JARVIS is Robert Downey Junior AKA Tony Stark AKA Iron Man’s artificial intelligence-powered butler. If you imagine Siri, but with infinitely more power and the ability to actually understand what you say more often than twice in every six months-worth of shouting at it, then you won’t be far off. In short, JARVIS is awesome.

Now, owing to the fact that the iPhone isn’t quite the real JARVIS and, well, the fact that it’s fictional, this app isn’t going to let you have your iPhone run your (imaginary) Iron Man suit. What it will do though is pretend to be Siri, with an Iron Man twist.

Like Tony Stark, users can engage JARVIS through voice-activated commands -Receive messages from JARVIS, download ringtones, post to Facebook and more -Check time, local weather as well as set alarms through the integrated Clock mode -Initiate media delivered in messages, including video, audio, image, ringtone or website -Install unique ringtones -Unlock 42 unique Iron Man suits (plus additional "Ghost" file) -When connected to the same network as the Blu-ray player, JARVIS will function as the Blu-ray remote control, or the user can simply "say what you see" and the app will do the rest.

Whether it will actually be any good is debatable, and we certainly have our doubts. If you’re a diehard Iron Man fan though, we’re sure it’s going to be worth a download.

If you want more Iron Man 3 action on your smartphone, then be sure to download the Iron Man 3 game on your iOS or Android device.

(Download: Iron Man 3 on iTunes)

Apple TV To Get Software Update On September 10th, Here Are The Details

Apple TV, once described by Tim Cook as a "hobby" to the Cupertino company, hasn’t seen a great deal of change in its lifespan, but with quite a few services having been added recently including the likes of VEVO, Disney Channel and others, and with iTunes Radio already confirmed for it, it’s certainly as rich in available content as it ever has been. With a big event confirmed for September 10th, some had hoped that Apple would be bringing some new hardware in its gradual growth push in the TV market, but it now seems certain that this will not be the case. There will, however, be a handsome software update, with a couple of interesting features. Details after the break!

One intriguing new addition to the fold allows users to take content bought on one Apple TV device and play it on another. Ideal if you’re at a friend’s house and don’t wish to move your little black box from its pride of place by your HDTV, the system incorporates both AirPlay and Apple’s servers to allow you to connect to your own content even if you’re not at home.

The process involves using an iPhone to "call" your Apple TV, sending it a message to begin streaming to your friend’s Apple TV. Essentially, it’s an extended version of AirPlay, but a very useful one at that, and I’m sure many confirmed Apple TV owners will be taking full advantage when it does eventually roll out.

Of course, you could always log out of one account and log back in, but as anybody who has used the three-buttoned Apple TV remote to accomplish any kind of typing, it’s tedious to say the least. This method is much quicker, and once you depart from your friend’s house, they won’t have to go through the rigmarole of putting their credentials back in once more, all part of this software update which will likely be numbered as version 7. Though the iOS 7 ‘flat’ makeover for Apple TV isn’t confirmed as part of this update.

With Google Chromecast costing only $35, Apple TV has a bit of competition, and although you get the impression that the search giant is not throwing much weight behind its new streamer, the fact that Google is competing at all may coax Apple into a more aggressive stance in the TV market.

So, while there’s still no sign of the elusive connected TV effort from Apple, Apple TV will be getting some kind of software update in the near future.