Only available for the iPhone 4S for now, with more device support planned. Both released roughly the same time, with the 4S coming out on October 2011, and iOS 5.1 on March 2012.

https://github.com/eatingurtoes/g1lbertCFW

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    Serious question, what’s the purpose of this? I don’t think anyone uses an iphone 4s with iOS 5.1 anymore so what’s the reason behind this?

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      At some point, older devices will run into expired root certificates despite being still otherwise functional (can’t say how many apps would still work at this point but the browser might still render basic sites). If it is jailbroken, you can then technically try to update the certificate yourself.

      I have an older 5S that my little one plays with. No OS updates for years, but still works with our public library app, so she could listen to audiobooks on it. We have a newer (I think) 7S Plus, but she doesn’t want to use it because she thinks the phone is too big… so I’ll be hoping for a jailbreak when the time comes for that phone, or some how try to convert her to larger devices as we’ve made the same leap.

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      Older iPhones will probably be sought out by retro collectors in the future similar to how old game consoles and computers are collectible now. I remember when you couldn’t give away old DOS PCs and CRT monitors and now they are sought after by retro PC collectors. I could see the early skeuomorphic versions of iOS being sought after by collectors in the future. They’ll want to sideload old apps and tinker around with the OS which is a lot easier to do with a jailbreak.

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    @[email protected] @[email protected] can’t reply to you directly for some reason but yes, I started to think about it after commenting and I know there’s people who like to play older games that don’t run on new phones anymore so yes it makes sense now. Thanks