Apple’s iOS 5 mobile operating system has proven to be something of a tough nut to crack for the iOS Jailbreak community, especially on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, which run on Apple’s A5 processor. Now it looks like users who want to jailbreak those devices may be in luck. Earlier this afternoon Dev-Team member pod2g announced on Twitter that he had made progress toward an untethered jailbreak of devices using the A5 processor.

This comes on the heels of an announcement on the Dev-Team blog late last week that an untethered jailbreak was available for users running iOS 5.0.1 on pre-A5 devices – e.g., the iPhone 4 and the iPad 1. All in all, it looks like 2012 is getting off to a lovely start for the jailbreak community.