In Search Of Utopia: The iPhone Rocks

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December 29, 2007

The iPhone Rocks

If you own an iPHone, and have an internet connection, point your iPhone's Safari browser to this location. Believe me, you will NOT regret it.

What does it do?

1. Jailbreaks iPhone/iPod Touch on 1.1.1
2. Patches Springboard to load third party apps

3. Activates non-AT&T iPhones automatically, while leaving already activated phones alone.

4. Fixes YouTube on non-AT&T iPhones automatically, while leaving already activated phones alone.

5. Installs Installer.app v3.0b5 on the iPhone/iPod Touch with Community Sources preinstalled.

6. Fixes Apple's TIFF bug, making your device MORE secure than it was without AppSnapp!

7. Enables afc2 protocol and adds special commands to allow killing springboard, lockdownd, etc from iphuc.

The best part? No hacking required!

This is a standard iPhone Screen

Now take a look at what a Jailbroke iPhone looks like...

But lets forget about the sexy look. It is the functionality.for the first time, I dont even carry my Treo Anymore. My iPhone has an advanced web browser, IMAP email support, threaded SMS, voice note recording, a ToDo list (Surprisingly, the iPhone did not come with one out of the box), and a wealth of OSX utilities, including a wifi stumbler application, which my Treo does not have, since it does not have wifi.

It even has a web based skype application.

Now as my buddy Eric would say.... "That's Hot!"

The coolest thing about the jailbroke iPhone is that the phone finally achieves some critical functionality to go with the flash.... It is unbelievable that this phone does not ship with an MMS program, or a video or voice recorder... The application Installer application has programs for most of the missing functionality... I still find it disappointing that there is no Native Yahoo Messenger Application, or Word Processing and Spreadsheet Application on the phone... There are a variety of web based applications that attempt to fill this void. For example, Mundu... The same people who power my always on IM application on my Palm Treo, have an excellent Web Based application for the iPhone...

Zoho, also has a great web based interface for their online spreadsheet, word processor and Presentation program.

One of the coolest way to discover the world of web apps for the iPhone is to check out AppMarks...

A virtual desktop application that has links to a wealth of iPhone Web Applications.. My iPhone has went from being a pretty toy, to being a pretty effective tool, just by doing a little tweaking.

There is one thing which still makes me nervous. There is no way to backup and restore the iphone, with all of the customizations. I have spent hours getting my phone JUST right, and dread the day that a crash could force me to have to restore it.

Posted by David A at December 29, 2007 08:03 PM
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