Untethered Jailbreak For iPhone 4S and iPad 2 To Be Called Absinthe, Release "In Hours"

Update: The iPhone 4S and iPad2 unthethered jailbreak is to be called Absinthe and the public release is "in hours".

The team of hackers working on an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 say they're nearly ready for a general release.

They say the jailbreak is working and they're now bug-fixing. The exploit will be released for both Mac and Windows.

The iPhone Dev Team has updated its blog with details:

The supported firmware versions will be:

• iPhone 4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
• iPad 2: 5.0.1 (9A405)

iPhone 4S owners looking to maximize their chances of achieving an eventual software-based carrier unlock should be staying at 5.0. Everyone else should be at 5.0.1. If you’re an iPhone 4S owner who already updated to 5.0.1, it’s too late to go back down to 5.0. But if you’re on 9A406 it is possible to downgrade the BB by going to the 9A405 version of 5.0.1 while the window is still open.

(Source: Dev Team blog via iDB)