iPhone 5 / iOS 6 JAIL BREAK

In less than 24 hours of the NEW iPhone 5 release it is Jail Broken. Don't get too excited yet it will still take some time to be a public release but not as long as it took for the iPhone 4S.

iPhone hacker Chpwn posted photos of Cydia running on a jailbroke iPhone 5, confirming that there is a possibility for an iPhone 5 jailbreak for the general public, as spotted by iPhone5untetheredjailbreak.

Chpwn confirmed the iPhone 5 running iOS 6 was jailbroken to ion1c, another iPhone hacker.

This is great news for the jailbreak community, considering the challenge of a new version of iOS and a new processor.

There are many reasons to jailbreak the iPhone 5, but the ability to run software not found in the official Apple App Store is one of the biggest. These iPhone jailbreak apps let users take greater control over the iPhone an customize the appearance of the software in many ways.

Jailbreak or upgrade to iOS6

To update or not to update, that is the question.
Apple unleashed iOS 6 on the world today, and as with any new iOS release, the update temporarily kills jailbreaking. A public jailbreak for iOS 6 will be released eventually, but it will likely take months. Until then, the latest jailbreak-friendly version of iOS is 5.1.1.

If you’re jailbroken on iOS 5.1.1, should you bother with updating to iOS 6 before the new jailbreak comes out? Here’s why you should, and here’s why you shouldn’t.

Why You Should
You think iOS 6′s 200+ new features are super awesome, and you just can’t live without them for a couple months.
You’re bored of your iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, and you want to hop on the Apple kool-aid bandwagon.
It’s not that you’re bored with jailbreaking, but you can live without your Cydia tweaks for awhile.
Why You Shouldn’t
iOS 6 isn’t really that magnificent of an upgrade, and your jailbroken iPhone is just too cool for school already.
It might take a really long time for hackers to get an iOS 6 jailbreak ready for prime time. Are you prepared to wait that long?
If you really rely on a number of special jailbreak tweaks every day, then upgrading to iOS 6 is probably not worth it right now.
Once a new version of iOS drops, you can’t downgrade back to the previous version. That means the window of opportunity for installing iOS 5.1.1 (the latest software version that can be fully jailbroken) is closing rapidly. Absinthe will still jailbreak iOS 5.1.1, but you’re locked out once you update to iOS 6. Time to choose your poison.

2012 Apple iPhone Event LIVE Blog 1pm Est.

Tomorrow, Sept 12, 2012 is the big day. Apple will be announcing its newest iOS device, the iPhone 5. Well the way things have been going Apple may just go with "the new iPhone". I am really pulling for the new iPhone name.