iPad 2 Jailbroken

Comex, developer of popular jailbreaking tools like Spirit and JailbreakMe has successfully jailbroken iPad 2 that was launched on Friday.

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That was quick, especially since Apple has patched the limera1n and the SHAtter exploit in iPad 2.

Comex broke the news via the following tweets and was also congratulated by the iPhone Dev team:

chpwn: by @comex: http://t.co/osP6lz comex: would’ve had it yesterday if I didn’t have to spend 1.5 days looking for a replacement exploit (which came from a most unexpected place…) iphone_dev: Congrats to @comex for jailbreaking yet another brand new device (iPad2) while 2500 miles away from it!

You can checkout the photo of an iPad 2 running Cydia, the unofficial App Store for jailbreak apps.

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iPad 2 VS iPad 1: Higher RAM Improves Web Browsing Experience

It was great to find out from the iPad 2 teardown that it comes with 512 MB RAM compared to only 256 MB in iPad 1.

We were hoping that the increase in RAM ensures that mobile Safari browser does not refresh the page every time you switch tabs, which is quite an annoying issue in the first generation iPad. The good news is that the increase in RAM appears to have fixed the issue.

Folks at TiPB have published a video, which shows the improvements in the web browsing experience in iPad 2 over iPad 1.

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As you can see in the video below, iPad 2 caches the pages that are open in the browser tabs unlike iPad 1, which refreshes almost half the pages. iPad 2 also seems to redraw the pages a lot faster while scrolling as you don’t see the checkerboard effect that is observed while scrolling web pages in iPad 1.

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Verizon iPhone Will Be Announced On January 11th

It looks like iPhone is finally coming to Verizon. Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Verizon will announce the introduction of Apple’s iPhone at the media event on January 11th.

The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

WSJ claims that according to their sources, Verizon iPhone will be similar to iPhone 4 but will work on Verizon’s CDMA network.

As we had mentioned earlier, folks at Gizmodo who had leaked videos and photos of iPhone 4 before it was released have not been invited at the event, despite having good relationship with Verizon, which further indicates that the Verizon media event is Apple centric.

Here's what's key: We're great friends with Verizon. (Hi guys!) We've worked with them for years, and we've been to like every event they've had over the last three years. We haven't gotten an invite. Which is weird. We've reached out to Verizon to see why, exactly, we weren't invited, but we've gotten no comment yet. (Update: Verizon's official response is a big ol' no comment.)

Meanwhile, All Things Digital reports that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is likely to be present for media event:

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iPhone Alarms Still Not Working Yet

As you might know, iPhone alarms didn’t work on New Year’s day 2011 for many users.

Apple had acknowledged the iPhone alarm bug and had reassured users that the issue will resolve itself on January 3rd.

But it’s January 3rd and the news is trickling in that the iPhone alarm didn't work for some users resulting in them being late to work on the first working day of 2011.

Some site like Engadget has also confirmed that users are still complaining about the issue. The iPhone alarm bug affects only non-recurring alarms.

If you hit the issue then the only option to avoid it, is to set the alarm as a recurring alarm rather than a one time alarm by following these steps:

* Launch Clock app

* Tap Alarm

* Tap Edit

* Tap the appropriate alarm

* Tap Repeat

* Set a repeat interval

* Tap Save

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