iOS 5 beta 3 already jailbroken, new features come to light

Who needs sleep, right? Instead of installing the tried-and-true “eight hours” which your mum still insists that you get, you are going to be doing something somewhat more adventurous this evening. Something involving a “jailbreak” of your recently updated iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. Just hours after Apple pushed out iOS 5 beta 3 to its developers, the parents at iPhone Dev-Team have confirmed that a Sn0wbreeze update will support jailbreaking on that very build. Sadly, it’s still tethered in the meanwhile, and the iPad 2 remains unsupported, but people with nerves of steel (and gobs of vacation days) can hit the source links to start. Furthermore, we’re just beginning to see what sort of wacky tricks beta 3 has up its sleeve — such things as custom alerts for text messages and what seems to be a shattering of the app grid at the iPad. For more on that, hop on past the break; for more at the jailbreak, we’d encourage you to speak amongst yourselves in comments below.

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