iPhone Dev Team post screen shot of Jailbroken Second Generation iPod Touch

By Aaron Besson at 16 January, 2009, 11:09 pm

The iPhone Dev Team have posted a screen shot of a second gen (2G) iPod Touch running Terminal demonstrating the jailbreak codenamed ‘Redsn0w’ via twitter. They have said that Redsnow is **still very preliminary, no ETA for end-user release yet** but should satisfy allot of 2G iPod Touch owners that the jailbreak is working and should eb available soon.

Update 1: Here is the first screenshot (above) of a jailbroken iPod Touch 2G. Right now the jailbreak process is far too manual to be useful to most people. But this is a first step (well, second step if you include the initial exploit).

When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us. So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak. But we are putting a lot of energy into it.

Update 2: A picture is worth a 1000 words but a video might be better in this day of Photoshop and fake YouTube videos. So we’re thinking of doing what we did before Christmas for yellowsn0w — show a demo of the jailbreak on Musclenerd’s Qik account (announced via his twitter account over there on the right hand side). Since Qik provides a live chatroom right next to the video, we’ll probably be in there too right after the video’s over.

** Note: anybody posing as any devteam member on that chat right now is faking it. We won’t be on that chat except for a very specific time that we’ll announce. (We may possibly not even do the chat since it’s so ripe for abuse).

Below is MuscleNerd’s Live Qik Feed.