What is Jailbreaking?

Not much posts lately simply because nothing much has been going on. There have been a few rumors with regards to upcoming MacBooks (rumoured to be announced possibly in June's WWDC) and the next iPhone (rumored to be announced in October), but basically nothing confirmed. Will have more information up here once there is any confirmed information.

In the meantime, today's post will be talking about Jailbreaking! Here are some things which some of you may not know about Jailbreaking.

1. Jailbreaking is legal
2. Jailbreaking is NOT just about getting paid apps for free (Especially since that part is the illegal side of Jailbreaking and not supported by all of the Jailbreaking community)
3. Jailbreaking frees your iPhone from Apple's restrictions and allows many customizations to be done

The above is my home screen which basically shows some of the things that you can do with Jailbreaking, such as
1. Changing your carrier name
2. Adding extra icons to the dock (you can see my video app hiding at the corner)
3. Removing app names (I find that it clutters my screen too much)
4. Changing icon dicrections (Helps when I am using my phone while lying down)
5. Installing improved apps over the stock apps, such as biteSMS, mxTube, etc.
6. There are several other useful things that you can do which are not visible on my current home screen which I will introduce on this blog along the way

Futhermore, Jailbreaking is relatively safe, since it is very easy to do (Anyone can do it within 10-15 mins), and you can also restore it to its pre-jailbreak status by restoring the iPhone within that same amount of time. You can also continue to sync your iPhone to the computer even when you have Jailbroke your iPhone so that you can easily restore your iPhone anytime without losing any non-jailbreak related info.

Currently, you can jailbreak all iPhones and up to iPad 2, with the iPad (2012)'s jailbreak still in the works. I shall not attempt to explain the process since there are already several such pages which describes the process of jail breaking with several video tutorials and the files immediately available. One such page is iDownloadBlog's jailbreak info page so I recommend you go check it out~