There’s been a lot of hand-wringing among jailbreakers as to when Apple’s latest iOS devices might be freed from their ball and chains -- those being the A5-powered iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, of course. As the “cat and mouse game” with Apple continues, it appears that at least the iPhone 4S may soon be free, judging from a video making its way around the internet.

iDownloadBlog is reporting that an untethered jailbreak for Apple’s A5 devices may be close to completion, according to the hacker known as pod2g. Don’t get excited just yet -- there’s no word on when the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S may finally get their much-deserved freedom, but if the video shown here is any indication, we may not have long to wait.

“The video was shot by Dustin Howett, an iOS developer and member of the Chronic Dev Team,” iDownloadBlog notes. “As you can see, he demonstrates a complete, untethered jailbreak on his iPhone 4S.” Further evidence of an incoming untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S comes from hacker pod2g himself, who notes on his blog that there is “only a few to wait now.”

Meanwhile, over on the A4 and below front, Dev Team head honcho MuscleNerd tweeted this morning that an update has been pushed out to their popular redsn0w tool, bringing the version number to 0.9.10b4, which “incorporates the 5.0.1 fix for iBooks, and also for sporadic problems with launchctl."

“Thanks to @xvolks for merging the iBooks (sandbox) fix from @comex’s github into the overall corona untether from @pod2g!” The Dev-Team Blog writes. “As usual, you can choose to install the fix either by re-running redsn0w over your existing jailbreak (de-select Cydia if you do that), or by installing the corona package from Cydia (it’s the same set of files no matter which way you choose).”

If you’re still on an older device (A4 processor or older), head over to The Dev-Team Blog and grab the latest redsn0w -- but as always, be sure to read the instructions before proceeding!

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