New iPad 2 (iPhone 5 Too?) Jailbreak Via SHAtter – GreenPois0n Coming Soon?

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While the iPhone 4 unlock is, for now, a lost battle, the iOS jailbreaking-community is apparently still more than able to best Apple. Just recently we told you that the iPad 2 was not jailbreakable out of the box as Apple has patched both the Limera1n and SHAtter exploits that would otherwise offer a jailbreak-for-life to all the iOS devices launched until the next-gen Apple tablet.

But the iPad 2 was soon jailbroken, sooner than we initially thought actually, and today we hear that the SHAtter exploit might still work on the iPad 2. Apple in the mean time is said to patch the current exploits that permit jailbreaking with an upcoming iOS 4.3.1, so those of you interested in jailbreaking the new tablet should stay away, for now, of this iOS update.

The good news here, and again I remind you that we don’t encourage jailbreaking and/or rooting your mobile device no matter how legal the process is, especially if you plan on using your jailbroken device to pirate apps and what not, that iOS devices using the new A5 chip could be jailbroken in the near future, and that naturally includes the upcoming iPhone 5 which is expected to carry the same application processor as the iPad 2.

Moreover it would appear that if successful, the new SHAtter-based jailbreak will also be an unetethered jailbreak, but we’re certainly going to cross that bridge when we get there. We’ll certainly be waiting for the new GreenPois0n tool to come out, and the Chronic Dev Team will finally be able to release a jailbreak tool as they initially intended, using this SHAtter exploit. Last year Geohot managed to launch Limera1n before the Chronic Dev Team’s GreenPois0n was supposed to become official and the latter hackers decided to save SHAtter for a rainy day but we’re not going to get into that argument again.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on the development of this upcoming iPad 2 jailbreak, so stick around, follow us on Twitter and subscribe to the feed for more iPad 2 jailbreak news!