'Untethered' iOS 5 / iPhone 4S Jailbreaks Everywhere

Following the advertising of several iOS 5 jailbreak & unlock solutions like FastRa1n 5.0 and Ghost 5.0, a new solution purports to deliver the same results for US $24.95 (or equivalent currencies).

Likely marketed by the same people responsible for the other purported jailbreaks I mentioned above, ‘Unlock iPhone 4S’ promises to deliver what is known as an ‘untethered jailbreak’ for the latest iOS and iPhone.

It is imperative that the jailbreak community knows there are currently no working solutions that achieve an untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S on iOS 5.

If the code-savvy bunch known as the iPhone Dev Team haven’t done it yet, the fishy unlockiphone4s-ios.com sure as heck hasn’t either.

Another notable aspect about this alleged hack is that they’ll charge you for it. Jailbreaks are always free - or at least those that you can rely on.

Unwary customers will end up on unlockiphone4s-ios.com via Google searches, or through well placed blog posts indexed by Google. A headline fed to my RSS reader saying “Dev Unlock iPhone 4/4S using iOS 5 Walkthrough” took me straight to it.

Needless to point out, the alleged guide is nowhere in sight. Customers are presented with a colorful website chock full of key words like “iOS 5.0 iPhone unlocking”; “unlock iPhone 4S”, and “untethered jailbreak iOS 5.0”.

The adverts also state: “This is it! You’ve arrived at the premiere destination for professional iPhone 4S unlocking and jailbreaking services anywhere on the World Wide Web.”

No you haven’t! Anyone this eager to get you to hack your device should seriously make you consider a free alternative, at the very least. Also remember that jailbreaking is not the most appreciated of practices at Apple.

All this being said, I’m sounding the alarm on yet another questionable jailbreak, just in case others manage to come up with even more convincing ways of taking your cash for a service that likely doesn’t exist. Hundreds of people (if not thousands) have been duped this way.