On April 3, the Apple iPad was released in U.S. stores for purchase. The following day, iPhoneDev team, the famous iPhone OS hacking group, demonstrated an early hack for jailbreaking the tablet and sent out the message as a Twitter update. Last week, George Hotz had announced a working solution to jailbreak the iPad. Sounds like a ‘Me first’ competition. Anyhow, it’s the consumers that will be able to make the best of iPad – be it jailbroken or not.
![How to Jailbreak an Apple iPad [Video]](http://techchunks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/How-to-Jailbreak-an-Apple-iPad-Video.jpg "How to Jailbreak an Apple iPad [Video]")
When you “jailbreak” an Apple device, you’re sort of freeing up the device to be used in all sorts of different ways that Apple never intended, or didn’t want to allow – it’s unlocking it from Apple’s strict proprietary software so you can install software that may not be approved by Apple… and for the iPad, this could mean turning it more into the traditional tablet computer we were all hoping for when rumors started circulating that Apple was working on one.
Jailbreak basically installs an open-source package (read: applications) manager called Cydia or others. Just like the App Store, this package manager offers apps (both paid and free) which are not available in the Apple App Store.
MuscleNerd, a member of iPhone Dev team, mentioned about the technique using which he got root access to the iPad. The iPhone Dev team is calling this jailbreak – Spirit which has been credited to Comex who mentioned that the ‘Spirit’ jailbreak isn’t based on a browser hack. The iPhone Dev Team might be working with Comex to come out with an easy-to-use tool for jailbreaking the iPad. We don’t know about unlocking the Wi-Fi+3G versions of iPad since they aren’t out yet.
Meanwhile, Hotz is still waiting for the iPad and we may expect him to show off his jailbreak skills with the iPad once he gets the device. Obviously, neither the iPhone Dev team nor Comex will reveal any details about the hack they discovered as Apple is most likely to plug the hole.
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For now, it’s just a huge step in making it easy for you and me to jailbreak our iPads, but more work will need to be done before us mere mortals can install something and then jailbreak the iPad with a few clicks and use it as God intended. Once again, the long wait for the easiest solution to jailbreak the iPad begins.
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Ya, I had seen this video yesterday in some other blog. But damn I do not have an Ipad
n not even an Ipod 
geez
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Who doesn’t want to get their hands on an iPad? Geez I hate that name so much. They could have chosen thousands of other names, but they chose this one! Damn.
HP slate or Apple iPad?
Other than Mac/PC. What one will/has more features?
Or What do you guys think about it?
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Try WePad, instead! It’s lot more feature rich than HP Slate or Apple iPad!
Well, some of them say HP Slate is better because it has Windows while some say Ipad because they are ardent fans of anything that begins with the ‘i’s lol
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I would like HP slate personally.
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For me the advantages of HP Slate over Apple iPad are the Windows 7 OS and Adobe Flash support.
I am DEFINITELY jailbreaking it as soon as I can. I’ve been a jailbreaker since the first hacks came out for the first generation iPhone. I see so much more potential in the iPad for some awesome hacks to be applied.
The iPad isn’t really powerful enough to run something like that. I used it on my old macbook which was much more powerful than the iPad will ever be, and it ran very slowly.
I like this phone.
It’s an iPad, NOT an iPhone
Gain full access to the iPad filesystem. The video displays connection to the iPad via ssh, exploring the OS and kernel version information, running processes, moving applications out of the iPad’s applications directory and then rebooting the iPad.
This is another option to facilitate you if you can’t work with virtual keyboard. Get any wireless Apple keyboard and your issue will be resolved.
nice hack ….