The wait for an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is finally over, with French hacker Pod2G and the Dev Team hackers releasing a jailbreak tool called “Absinthe”, which is indeed a form of “greenpois0n”.

Web articles from dubious sounding sources may well be promising that full jailbreaks and unlocks for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are available, but they’re still scams, with French hacker “pod2g” showing photos of jailbroken 2 and 4S devices and promising public availability is still “coming soon”.

Warning: all those sites promising a jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are lying to you, as it’s not possible yet, but if hacker ‘pod2g’ is successful, a jailbreak for devices running the A5 processor (which is the iPhone 4S and iPad 2) might be coming in the next week or two.

With the launch of the 2012 iPhone 5 still at least six to nine months away, all of the attention is on the unjailbreakable iPhone 4S and iPad 2, but as of very late 2011, the iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch with A4 processors can finally be jailbroken.

Although there was no mention whatsoever of improved or expanded voice commands or voice dictation in yesterday’s iOS 5 launch, the word is that it’s coming – as has a jailbreak of iOS 5 already!

An updated, more efficient and fully untethered version of the iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is being reported as due by December 24, but with the deletion of a tweet suggesting this would happen, jailbreakers waiting for the latest and greatest jailhouse hack are stuck in anticipatory suspense!

The infamous iPhone Dev Team has released an online jailbreak for Apple’s iPhone 4, allowing users to install unofficial apps and take full control of their devices.

Famed iPhone hacker, George Hotz, has brought forth news of an untethered iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 2nd Generation and iPod Touch 3rd Generation jailbreak, which will “probably work on the iPad, too”.

A revised bootrom in freshly manufactured iPhone 3GSes eliminates the vulnerability commonly used to jailbreak the popular handset.

A new release of iPhone OS is supposed to fix a problem that could stop iPhones from waking from sleep.