iPhone 5 owners who enjoy the benefits of jailbreaking their device are in for some good news! Respected jailbreak hacker Grand Paul (chpwn) just posted a screenshot on Twitter showing a successfully jailbroken iPhone 5.
Taller screens like Cydia too. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/fE14vXN2
— Grant Paul (@chpwn) September 21, 2012
While a public release of an iOS 6 and iPhone 5 jailbreak isn’t expected anytime in the immediate future, this is still excellent news, as it shows developers are making rapid progress on the jailbreaking effort very early on in the process.
The screenshot is mainly notable considering Paul’s reputation regarding iOS security. He later confirmed to another jailbreak developer that the device is indeed jailbroken, and not just running on a simulator.
@i0n1c jailbroken
— Grant Paul (@chpwn) September 21, 2012
A public release of any kind wouldn’t be expected for a least a couple of months, if at all (there’s always a chance that no stable jailbreak will ever come to fruition). Even so, this should be promising news to jail-breakers with iPhone 5s!
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Update: Grant Paul has now provided an addition screenshot of Cydia actually running on an iPhone 5, and showing the Cydia home page. Exciting stuff!
Here’s the Cydia homepage on the iPhone 5: pic.twitter.com/w0qVYaxG
— Grant Paul (@chpwn) September 21, 2012
Update 2: Paul has now provided an actual photograph of a jailbroken iPhone 5!
Some people wanted the bottom row of text from Cydia, or a photo of the device itself: pic.twitter.com/T5mSNTNQ
— Grant Paul (@chpwn) September 22, 2012
