The iPhone Dev team just released numbers for the Absinthe A5 jailbreak. According to the site, 953,232 new jailbreaks were recorded. That’s a whole lotta hacking. More »
Apple and Samsung aren’t exactly best friends. Which is why it’s quite amusing to find out that Apple’s A5 processor is built on a $US3.6 billion Samsung production line in Texas. More »
After months of suing each other into the ground, the Apple vs Samsung nerd fight has finally come to a head. Reuters is reporting that Taiwanese company TSMC is beginning its trial run of the next generation of Apple processors. More »
According to 9to5Mac, Apple’s gearing up for the next iPhone by handing out select handsets with the iPad’s A5 processor instead of iPhone 4′s A4 guts. The devices themselves (dubbed “iPhone 4S” by the site’s source due to its external similarity to the Apples current-gen handset) may not be iPhone 5 hardware, but the guts – those super-speedy, graphics blasting A5 guts – are getting a test drive. More »
Someone went digging through the iOS 4.3 code and discovered the same code for the A5 processor in references for both the iPad 2 and iPhone 5. I don’t think this was ever really a question, but if you need every bit of confirmation you can get, there’s some more. [Filippo Biga via Electronista]
Bang & Olufsen’s long-standing partnership with Audi will soon produce a sound system in the upcoming 2010 A5 Sportback that arguably rivals many modest home theatres. More »