by iPhoneate.com / July 28, 2013 8:54 AM EDT

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Great news for iPhone 4 owners , but be sure to read this post carefully before you get too excited. Yes, there's a new untethered jailbreak . But compatibility is limited. It only works for CDMA versions of the iPhone 4 , and the application only runs on Linux.

The tool is called UnthreadedJB , and it's developed by a group of people with the same name. To be fair, this is the first untethered jailbreak we've seen for iOS 5.1 – I believe Absinthe 2.0 was for iOS 5.1.1, but it wasn't compatible with 5.1 . And several users have confirmed that it works…

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by iPhoneate.com / August 17, 2012 12:10 AM EDT

 

The following interesting chart shows that if Apple had immediately partnered with major US mobile carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint , instead of exclusively offering iPhones to AT&T, the success of the iPhone, at least in the US, would have been even more overwhelming. However, as it turned out, this wasn't possible, since Apple signed a five-year exclusivity contract with AT&T in 2007 , which it then renegotiated in 2010, allowing Verizon to partner with its CDMA networks in 2011.

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by iPhoneate.com / May 26, 2012 2:08 AM EDT

iH8sn0w has updated his tool to version Sn0wbreeze 2.9.4 , now allowing you to perform custom iOS to preserve the baseband or simply avoid the Absinthe process.

 

 

 

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by iPhoneate.com / March 21, 2012 11:07 AM EDT

El GEVEY Ultra S commits to unlock GSM and CDMA phonesThe new Ultra GEVEY S will unlock your iPhone 4s from any carrier. Verizon or Sprintprovided that it meets the following requirements.

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by iPhoneate.com / February 22, 2012 12:05 AM EST

We've often discussed the possibility of Apple's new devices connecting to 4G LTE networks . Until now, this may have seemed a long way off, but Qualcomm has unveiled a new series of chips that can work with both 3G and 4G networks. Could one of these chips be integrated into the new iPhone 5?

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by iPhoneate.com / October 7, 2011 10:11 PM EDT

Hello iPhone users, Following the earlier news that the iPhone 4 will not be available as an unlocked device until November, it is also worth mentioning that only GSM carrier customers will be able to unlock the 4S.

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by iPhoneate.com / February 10, 2011 12:02 AM EST

Hello iPhone users! It seems Apple is working on what will be the new iPhone, this time including the two networks of the two main American phone companies: Verizon, which works with a CDMA network, and AT&T, which works with a GSM network. Apple is opting to make it the same device for both.


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