Apple released iOS 5.1 during their March keynote speech; a keynote where we also saw the 3rd generations of the iPad and AppleTV rolled out. As always, iTunes tends to get a little bit tempramental when it comes to grabbing firmware updates therefore you may well find it easier to download directly from Apple’s servers.
With the recent release of an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 a plethora of people are updating their iDevices. Some using the OTA mechanism, others by plugging into iTunes. If you haven’t already downloaded the firmware update then you’ll often find iTunes will time out at these busy periods. Thankfully, as always, it’s possible to download those massive firmware files directly from the big fruit and it’s faster too!
Chances are your iOS device has already prompted you that there’s an update available to install. Many people just ignore these in the same way they do App Store updates. Thankfully, it’s really easy to kick off that installer and update your device
iOS 5 is out. Apple’s servers are melting under the load of people trying to download it, Mac updates, iTunes updates and other software updates like iPhoto and Apeture. Thankfully, there is a faster way to download the firmware updates.
If you want to go ahead and download / install this firmware update then you might find one of the following links
Apple have released their latest iOS update bringing the non Verizon latest firmware to 4.3.3 and the Verizon specific firmware to 4.2.8
We were expecting the second generation Apple TV platform to get iOS 4.1 today, with all other iDevices getting iOS 4.2; however we were quite surprised when we found that Apple TV is also getting iOS 4.2.x
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Until April 2009, all the other handsets I owned were made by Nokia – it was at this point I moved to the Apple iPhone and I haven’t looked back since.
There have always been a number of different ways to (metaphorically) skin a cat and equally there have been various methods by which to jailbreak and unlock an iPhone.
