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Geohot Jailbreaks the iPhone 4

As usual, that didn’t take long. Geohot published a blog post last night, showing his jailbroken iPhone 4 running Cydia.

Got one of these in the mail today and figured I’d give it a shot.

As far as a release goes, it probably won’t happen from me. limera1n is little more than a raindrop on a website; it was never mentioned by me previous to this post. pwned4life is a complete invention of some blogger in a basement somewhere. When I said pwned for life, I was referring to the original iPhone, 3G, and Touch; which of course are, by the aptly named PwnageTool.

Again, please don’t ask for release dates. Every person that does makes me want to release a little bit less.

Whatever he did, I guess he won’t release his jailbreak tool anytime soon. It’s very likely that we’ll be able to jailbreak our iPhone 4’s with @comex userland jailbreak as soon as Apple pushes the iOS 4.0.1 / 4.1 update.

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