Two iOS5 Security Flaws Exploited By Apple Jailbreak Tool

                             A researcher has released a new jailbreak tool that would allow iPhone users to run code from sources other than Apple's iTunes App Store.The new jailbreak, dubbed Corona, takes advantage of two different bugs in iOS 5 to untether iPhones and other devices running iOS 5.01, a researcher, Pod2g, wrote on his iOS Research blog. One flaw exists in the iOS binary and the other was a heap overflow in the kernel, according to the post.

Alternate routes in Map

This is one update I really would have thought Apple would highlight, now that I know what it does. If you've ever used Google Maps to plot a course, you know that you can click on the colored path and drag it around the map for alternate routes. iOS Maps didn't allow anything that… until now.

When you look for directions in iOS 5, it will now give you up to three possible routes (Route 1, Route 2, or Route 3). Tap each route to view its path on the map or tap the bottom-right button to view the list of directions for that route. You can also choose "Show Traffic," a feature that has been there from the start, to see traffic along each route. Once you choose a route, hit "Start" to get directions.

Death-Grip Is Gone

Almost as soon as the iPhone 4 came out there were reports of dropped calls if the phone was held a certain way. The "death grip," as people called it, occurred most commonly when the phone was held in the left hand.

My phone has it, but I wasn't too bothered since my iPhone 4 went into a hard rubber Incipio case immediately and will stay in the thing for the life of the phone, only occasionally coming out for a cleaning. Every iPhone owner should protect their phone on all sides. But "Antennae-gate" as it was called became a royal headache for Apple.

Well, a number of sites have run tests and found that the problem is indeed gone. Gizmodo notes no death grip, Daily iPhone Blog, and AppAdvice all report the problem fixed.

Dig Deeper into iOS 5

While Apple is known for being uber secretive, iOS 5 has been no secret; we got a significant preview this past summer at the Worldwide Developer Conference and there have been multiple betas that were immediately picked apart for clues.

Apple has proclaimed more than 200 new features in iOS 5, from the over-the-air updates (about damn time) to the Newsstand app to iMessage allowing you to bypass the texting limits of carriers, there's a lot to like in this new OS.

Still, some great features manage to slip by that deserve special highlight, which we will do. Also, keep an eye on this thread on MacRumors, where people are accumulating all the little features they find.