iPhone Jailbreak?

[Jonny671]

Someone at work is pestering me to Jailbreak my iPhone, and thinks its silly anyone who doesn't as its 'far better than standard'.

I can't really see how 'breaking' it is better, so just wondered how many on here have or do jailbreak theirs?

[Dracoro]

My iPhone does everything I need it to do.

Any apps I need are in the store.

So why jailbreak, I get no benefits.

But some want to do things that the iPhone out the box cannot. Someone saying it's far better than standard is talking rubbish as they don't know how you use it. It's like modding a car, some say putting a load of spoilers and wings over it make it a lot better than standard........... For them it does, not necessarily for everyone else

Unless you have a specific reason to "jail"break it then there's only negatives involved (no officially supported, hassle everytime there's an update, anyone can write crap code/apps for it etc.)

Edited by Dracoro on Saturday 13th February 10:56

[bobthemonkey]

Jailbreaking allows you to take the device out of the Apple safety-net.

Some of the advantages include proper multitasking, a higher degree of UI customisation and access to teh kind of software Apple would never approve. This includes old school emulators (ScummVM!) Google Voice and stuff that lets you use the Unix foundations - command line interfaces, FTP, SSH and all that.

[Jezz172]

I have to admit I have jailbroke my phone but I noticed it slowed it down.
I have the 3GS now and doesn't seem to affect it as much but I've gone back to the standard software.

I do miss having the 5 icons at the bottom though

[number2]

I've gone back to standard now too. my 3G was just becoming too slow - this was before the JB too - so I downloaded the new apple software and recovered it. Better now although not as quick as I'd like.

Like you, I miss the five icons along the bottom and also the neat application that enabled me to turn features on/off really easily such as wi-fi,3G, Bluetooth etc. Takes a good four or five presses from the Apple interface and of course if you are in an application you need to close it and go back to the menu It was nice being able to customise the design of the home screen and icons.

There are lots of more complicated things a JB enables you to do if you are so inclined and able but I was neither. It was certainly a neat trick and provided some very handy features but I can tolerate living without them for now.

Why not give it a go - it doesn't cost anything and you can always go back. If you are concerned about your warranty, a JB may/will void it.

[FourWheelDrift]

I finally Jailbroke mine, but the only things (ignore all the ssh geeky stuff and whatever else) that I have added that are useful are the SBSettings (swiping the top status bar to bring up quick 3G and Wifi on/off options and some other options. iBlacklist app to block spam callers the 5 Icon bottom row and Categories, the one that you can create a folder and put apps into, I do this for News and Games. The only other things I have tried are just visual, tried a few themes, lock pages. Settled with the iComplete theme with different lockscreen, dialer and calculator skins.

[number2]

..and one more really useful thing and I don't know whether the 3GS has this - I could see when I had mail from the lock screen so I didn't have to unlock the phone to check.

[PJ S]

It's software implemented, so version of iPhone makes no difference.