iPad Jailbreak Rumors Emerge

We've just seen the first offical iPad commerical which was aired on the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Now, that the end is near with a release date of April 3rd, our focus in now based on how to best utilize the iPad. Apple announced that iPad will support all the iPhone and iPod Touch apps OTB. iPad will feature a 1GHz processor, 9.7 inches capacitive multitouch display and storage capacity of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Checkout the complete iPad Specs.

We already know how popular iPhone and iPod Touch jailbreaking has been in accommodating some of the cool features that utilize the device to its fullest capacity. The user can jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch devices using RedSn0w, PwnageTool, and Sn0wBreeze the user can also enjoy multitasking with ProSwitcher, iPhone customization with Winterboard, Google Voice, Bluetooth transfers with iBlueNova and iBluetooth and much more. These are some of the features that Apple has not yet offered to the iPhone users.

Unfortunately for us, Apple has repeated its action by not utilizing the iPad to its fullest capacity. iPad lacks Multitasking, Flash support, SMS/Calling features.

The question arose, leaving all the jailbreakers wondering whether it will be possible to jailbreak the iPad? The demo of the product featured OS 3.2 which is available for iPad only, not for iPhone or iPod Touch. Since the iPad’s firmware is similar to iPhone there are hopes that the Dev-Team, and GeoHot are going to take a crack at it again with the new exploits that have been discovered recently.

Jailbreaking iPad depends on how hard Apple patches exploits used to jailbreak. Apple keeps on changing hardware and securing software to make it harder and harder for hackers to jailbreak firmware. It was apparent when Apple patched the 24kpwn exploit in newer iPhone 3GS and iPod touch model. With the new exploit found after 24kpwn exploit death, users were required to jailbreak their iDevices on each reboot, it’s called tethered jailbreak.

So, is it possible for Apple to completely block the iPad jailbreak? iPhone Dev-Team call it a Cat&Mouse play. Apple patches an exploit and the hackers have always been able to find and use another exploit to jailbreak iPhone and iPodTouch devices. At the very least we should be able to get a iPad tethered jailbreak.

Let’s hope the Dev-Team, or GeoHot or someone new to the scene finds a way and can get us an iPad jailbreak. Of course, we will only know once the iPad is released.