Greenpois0n jailbreak for all iDevices, and FaceTime on 1st gen iPad

Sunday brought about the release of the latest Jailbreak by the famous Chronic Dev Team. Greenpois0n is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and can give you an untethered jailbreak for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch running the latest 4.2.1 firmware. Global users beware however because updating your phone to the newest firmware will upgrade your base band as well, forcing you to wait until another unlock is released before you can use your phone on another GSM network.

This untethered jailbreak also appears to work on the new CDMA Verizon iPhone. For those of you who don't know what untethered means, a tethered jailbreak means that every time your phone is completely turned off, in order to boot back into a jailbroken state you will need to connect it to computer. Untethered means you are free to reboot whenever, your phone will always boot into a jailbroken state.

Personally I've held off on upgrading my iPhone's firmware since there haven't really been any significant changes to the os yet. So my phone is still running 4.1 which is fine for now.

In other news, Italian iPad blog site ipadevice.com posted a video showing facetime running on a jail broken iPad running the latest 4.3 beta. This is further proof that the iPad 2 will feature front and back camera's. However the fact that the application ran at 1074x768 resolution (which is the current iPad's resolution) could mean that the iPad 2 will not feature a retina display, which is highly disappointing. It could also mean that we could see the release of the iPad 2 shortly after the release of the 4.3 update.