CrackBerry Kevin on the iPhone 3G - Help!

[Duvi]

I'm Checking in as well! Barely made it before midnight! yikes!

Are you on CST? Lol.

 

[jamesus]

weirdness. installed beejive. msn signs in find, yet aim keeps telling me bad password. yet the regular aim app i also installed signs in fine. je ne sais pas!

Have you given Palringo a try? It's free and works flawlessly for me.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

I'm Checking in as well! Barely made it before midnight! yikes!

Next time;
Go into profile, change your timezone, then post.

 

[IndyJonez]

Next time;
Go into profile, change your timezone, then post.

Aha! never thought of that! LoL.

Cheater!

 

[berdinkerdickle]

One major thing that just turns me off about apple is their official forum.
Deleting obvious troll posts is one thing, but they will delete posts of actual issues.
Sure, I know how it is, if you go to a forum and see people complaining about a certain issue, you may think twice before buying their product.
Apple's solution; delete posts about issues. - Jerks.

 

[IndyJonez]

One major thing that just turns me off about apple is their official forum.
Deleting obvious troll posts is one thing, but they will delete posts of actual issues.
Sure, I know how it is, if you go to a forum and see people complaining about a certain issue, you may think twice before buying their product.
Apple's solution; delete posts about issues. - Jerks.

Yea I heard of one guy recently posting questions about his plastic iphone 3G back cover cracking and they deleted his thread 2 or 3 times, that's some bs right there.

 

[chuazy]

do you think the plastic case is actually worse than the gen 1 iphone? I actually prefer the aluminium back...

 

[CrackBerry Kevin]

Just checking in... I was hoping somebody could give me a very concise Pros / Cons to Jailbreaking... and also curious to know if there are any stats on the % of iphone 3gs that have been jailbroken.

do like 5% or 50% or 80% of iphone 3g owners go through the jailbreak process.

 

[Jeremy]

Just checking in... I was hoping somebody could give me a very concise Pros / Cons to Jailbreaking... and also curious to know if there are any stats on the % of iphone 3gs that have been jailbroken.

do like 5% or 50% or 80% of iphone 3g owners go through the jailbreak process.

Here is a quick rundown on jailbreaking for anyone who is not sure of what it is.

When Apple first released the iPhone and then the iPod Touch, the company also released a method for third-parties to create applications for the devices. The apps wouldn?t run on the units themselves, but rather one would use Safari on the mobile device to access web sites that would perform basic functions such as simple games, dictionaries, etc. In the end, it wasn?t really software but rather simple web sites, or web apps, designed to work with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Users worldwide were not OK with this. (That's why a year later we got the SDK) They wanted to run other programs on the devices other than those supplied by Apple. They also wanted the convenience of not needing a wifi connection to access these 'softwares'. As a result, they figured out a way to install their own programs, allowing users to run programs like Instant Messaging clients, complex games, interactive fiction, and customization apps used to change the look and feel of the Springboard.

For some pros look here: Top 5 Must-Have Jailbreak Apps | The iPhone Blog Another top 5 list will be appearing soon on the front page.

As for some cons - you can run into some instability issues depending on what you install and such but you can always go back to normal if need be.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

My only concern was warranty.
But I think someone said you could un-jailbreak it. (or whatever it's called)

 

[Jeremy]

My only concern was warranty.
But I think someone said you could un-jailbreak it. (or whatever it's called)

Yeah, you can. There is no way a Apple "Genius" would ever be able to tell if the phone was jailbroken. Now unlocking is a different story.

 

[Duvi]

Just checking in... I was hoping somebody could give me a very concise Pros / Cons to Jailbreaking... and also curious to know if there are any stats on the % of iphone 3gs that have been jailbroken.

do like 5% or 50% or 80% of iphone 3g owners go through the jailbreak process.

Jailbreaking... Maybe 10% if that. No real number that I've read, but that would be the most. In fact, I would think maybe less than 5%.

 

[IndyJonez]

I still need an iphone.

 

[Duvi]

I still need an iphone.

What's stopping ya?

I'm actually going to put mine on eBay or CL, went Bold, like Ash

Except he has the iPhone as well.

 

[chuazy]

but the problematic part is you have to wait till a jailbreak solution is available before you choose to update your firmware..

 

[IndyJonez]

What's stopping ya?

I'm actually going to put mine on eBay or CL, went Bold, like Ash

Except he has the iPhone as well.

Waiting for my contract to end on Tmobile and saving some money.

 

[Duvi]

Waiting for my contract to end on Tmobile and saving some money.

Yeah... I guessed that... I can definitely see that being a factor... when does you contract end?

 

[chuazy]

i heard that at&t is going to have home activation again for the iphone *time to unlock them without contract* grinz

 

[Duvi]

i heard that at&t is going to have home activation again for the iphone *time to unlock them without contract* grinz

I was able to do this for some time now. I've had the option to order 3Gs since September I believe. I think that option was only afforded to those that had discounts being applied to their accounts.

 

[berdinkerdickle]

Another thing that verifies the iphone is more play and less biz is the top picks for apps.
They tend to be games, media, bells and whistles.