What Is the Best Jailbreak Software?
To put it succinctly, jailbreaking an iPhone refers to unlocking the phone with special jailbreak software, and thus freeing it from any restrictions that Apple has put on the device.
Because the iPhone is far from flawless as Apple created it, thousands of iPhone users have flocked to Jailbreak in search of iPhone changes and improvements. iPhone has been held back by limited customizability, text message privacy issues, and a lack of multitasking capabilities. But Jailbreak can solve all of these problems with apps and fixes available in Cydia and Installer.
Cydia and Installer are the unofficial “App Stores” of the Jailbreak world. Developers create apps and tweaks and different utilities and upload them to these package managers, which organize everything into categories.
The differences between Cydia and the App Store are the lack of an app approval process, and the lack of access limits on the iPhone software – i.e. you can do things Apple did not design the iPhone software to do.
What is the point to jailbreaking your iPhone?
1)No restrictions. Want a custom wallpaper on your home screen? Custom icons for your apps? Internet tethering? A category system for organizing your apps? The ability to hide native iPhone apps you don’t use? As one of my readers recently noted, Jailbreak can make all your iPhone wishes come true.
2)To join the subculture. Sick of Apple’s stranglehold on the iPhone? Those who Jailbreak iPhone belong to a movement of people who demand more from their iPhones. And they’re not gonna let Apple stop them. Beat the system: Jailbreak your iPhone.
Third – Unlock and untether, baby! Jailbreaking is the process of cracking the phone so that you can run 3rd party apps on it. After you jailbreak, you’ve then got the option of “unlocking” the phone. This means that you can use it on other providers. Apple currently tries to tie you to AT&T.
Are There Any Drawbacks to Unlocking the iPhone?
1)The folks at Apple know what they are doing. They have not enabled multasking – the ability for apps to run in the background, simultaneously – most likely because it is a huge battery drain. By controlling the user experience, Apple ensures that your iPhone “just works,” and you don’t have to worry about managing battery life or any other technical details.
2)Jailbreak could (maybe?) brick your iPhone.
3rd)You can never update your phone again. Whenever you get an iOS upgrade or an iTunes update, your phone is locked again – i.e. not jailbroken. Whenever Steve Jobs and Co. release one of these updates, they find a way to prevent jailbreaking with it. And everyone has to wait until some enterprising hacker figures it out again.
4)Jailbreak voids your iPhone warranty. If your iPhone is bricked because of Jailbreak, or if your iPhone has another problem and it happens to be Jailbreaked, your warranty becomes void. I once saw a sign at the Genius bar of The Falls, Miami Apple Store that warned customers not to Jailbreak iPhones or they would void their warranties. Harsh.
Want to jailbreak your iGadget? Be sure you look at the author’s totally awesome gratisreport about the best jailbreak software, and his blog with instructiabouts for manually using jailbreak software.
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