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7 Reasons To Jailbreak
1.Themes
Customization of the iPhone has been very limited ever since the first iPhone was releases in 2007. But as soon as someone jailbroke it, it became free. At first, there were only a few themes. But then as the popularity increases and the “underground” community grow, more themes became available. There are probably over 100,000 themes as well as hundreds of keyboard, slider, and battery life customization options. No two iPhones have to look alike ever again.
2. Multitasking (backgrounder)
Multitasking has been one of the most asked feature but with each new firmware update, nothing came. With Backgrounder, you can finally multitask. But what does that exactly mean? It means you can run more than one app at a time. Wanna play a game? Go ahead. Need to check your email? Press and hold the home button (default settings) and a pop up will show up telling you backgrounder has been enabled. Then return to the home screen. After you’re done checking your email (or whatever else you did) you can return to your game right where you were before. This is just one example of multitasking but it really comes in handy because many apps take a long time to load.
3. Emulators
The iPhone and iPod Touch are powerful devices and keep getting more powerful with each new version. How powerful? Comparable to a Sony PSP that is almost as powerful as the Playstation 2. That is why you can run emulators on your iPhone. There are emulators for the more popular consoles including NES, SNES, GBA, and PS1 although this last one has had some performance issues. These emulators have been free in the past, but with the Cydia Store and Rock Your Iphone apps for 3.x.x, the developers are starting to charge a small fee (only for the GBA emulator). This is a small price for the fun you’ll have and the efforts that zodttd (developer of the Nintendo emulators) has put in for the jailbreak community. Be warned though, you’ll need to find the games yourself and there could be legal issues with playing them if you don’t own the original.
4. Tether
This is obviously for iPhones only. AT&T will not let you tether with your iPhone. This is most likely because a tethering plan would slow down AT&T’s already slow network. It could also be for business reasons. What ever the reasons, it won’t happen without jailbreak. Tethering allows a user to use a phone’s cellular connection to get Internet acccess anywhere. By jailbreaking and tethering, you could have Internet access on your laptop almost anywhere. But beware of the risk, as if you get caught you could be charged.
5. Apple-rejected apps
As most developers have noticed, Apple is very strict on approving apps and has very strict rules and conditions to follow for an app to be approved. Most apps that are rejected from the Appstore (or had no chance to begin with) end up in Cydia or Rock Your Phone. There have been several examples of this including the famous Google Voice app. Although a web version exists for non-jailbreakers, a native app is better.
6. Video recording (iPhone 2G and 3G only)
Until the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone had a low-quality camera with no video-recording. If you do not have the new iPhone 3GS, there are apps that allow video recording with previous iPhones such as Cyrecorder. This is ideal if you want to record video once in a while but is not a good enough reason to get a new iPhone.
7. Jailbreak community
Jailbreak has created a whole new “underground” community of developers, iPod fans, tech geeks and regular users to come together with one common interest: freeing your iPhone or iPod Touch from Apple’s totalitarian control. Because there is a vast community available for almost no other phone, it is easy to find help whenever you encounter a problem. There are countless forums and blogs about the iPhone and jailbreak, making it easy to find an answer to almost any problem.
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Written by snam23
