One of the features so many people wanted is multi tasking for the device but it wasn't implemented because it would kill the battery life much faster than the phone already did.
2. The possibility of bricking your iPhone exists. This means that the device will completely stop working and there will be no support offered by Apple to fix it because what you were doing was not supported or condoned by the company. You may also risk complications or problems with conflicting issues. Many people feel that the risk of ruining the device is not worth jailbreaking it since the iPhone does work on its own without any extra tweaking needed.
3. Updates to the iPhone disable the ability to jailbreak it. Apple is very smart and their developers do study how the phone has been modified. Every time the update happens, individuals who have done a jail break on their phone have to discover, yet again, how to crack Apple's code in order to jail break it again. It can be quite tedious to have to modify your phone every time an update occurs. You also risk bricking your phone every single time a jail break is needed.
4. You become susceptible to viruses when you decide to jail break your iPhone. Although viruses are not very widespread on the iPhone the possibility of you getting one is there and this risk increases once the phone has been modified. Apple is obviously not going to be able to create a phone that is 100% secure but in the history of existing, the iPhone's two reported viruses occurred as a result of phones being jail broken.
5. Your warranty becomes null and void once you decide to jail break the iPhone. The professionals who handle the phones can tell if it has been modified and once it has been detected, you are out of luck if you want to get it fixed. This is a serious risk you take when it comes to the chance that you may end up bricking your iPhone. It is quite a risk that individuals who are cautious in their lives may not want to take.
Jail breaking the iPhone is something that is very popular and offers a lot more control over the device but it not the best choice for everyone.
Today, Dev-team released Redsn0w 0.9.8b1, capable of jailbreaking the latest Apple operating system for mobile devices, iOS 5 (beta).
This is a tethered jailbreak which means that you will have to connect your device to a computer and run Redsn0w in order to achieve 'jailbreak mode' on it.
With all these improvements added to iOS5, is still worth to jailbreak your device?
I used to jailbreak my iPhone in the past in order to obtain higher customization level for it, gain access to settings that were not available in the official iOS, tweaks that could improve my iDevice experience after all.
Many of these 'improvements' are already available with iOS 5, still few are missing.
In my opinion, iOS 5 is a great step forward for Apple, which seems to have learned from the jailbreak community in the benefit of their clients. Wish that many companies would do the same (e.g.
One of the features so many people wanted is multi tasking for the device but it wasn't implemented because it would kill the battery life much faster than the phone already did.
2. The possibility of bricking your iPhone exists. This means that the device will completely stop working and there will be no support offered by Apple to fix it because what you were doing was not supported or condoned by the company. You may also risk complications or problems with conflicting issues. Many people feel that the risk of ruining the device is not worth jailbreaking it since the iPhone does work on its own without any extra tweaking needed.
3. Updates to the iPhone disable the ability to jailbreak it. Apple is very smart and their developers do study how the phone has been modified. Every time the update happens, individuals who have done a jail break on their phone have to discover, yet again, how to crack Apple's code in order to jail break it again. It can be quite tedious to have to modify your phone every time an update occurs. You also risk bricking your phone every single time a jail break is needed.
4. You become susceptible to viruses when you decide to jail break your iPhone. Although viruses are not very widespread on the iPhone the possibility of you getting one is there and this risk increases once the phone has been modified. Apple is obviously not going to be able to create a phone that is 100% secure but in the history of existing, the iPhone's two reported viruses occurred as a result of phones being jail broken.
5. Your warranty becomes null and void once you decide to jail break the iPhone. The professionals who handle the phones can tell if it has been modified and once it has been detected, you are out of luck if you want to get it fixed. This is a serious risk you take when it comes to the chance that you may end up bricking your iPhone. It is quite a risk that individuals who are cautious in their lives may not want to take.
Jail breaking the iPhone is something that is very popular and offers a lot more control over the device but it not the best choice for everyone.
Today, Dev-team released Redsn0w 0.9.8b1, capable of jailbreaking the latest Apple operating system for mobile devices, iOS 5 (beta).
This is a tethered jailbreak which means that you will have to connect your device to a computer and run Redsn0w in order to achieve 'jailbreak mode' on it.
With all these improvements added to iOS5, is still worth to jailbreak your device?
I used to jailbreak my iPhone in the past in order to obtain higher customization level for it, gain access to settings that were not available in the official iOS, tweaks that could improve my iDevice experience after all.
Many of these 'improvements' are already available with iOS 5, still few are missing.
In my opinion, iOS 5 is a great step forward for Apple, which seems to have learned from the jailbreak community in the benefit of their clients. Wish that many companies would do the same (e.g.