Ok, I've finally jailbroken my iPhone (3G, firmware 2.1, 5F136). Yay! Through all the forums/discussion threads I have read, I'm not sure why so many people say jailbreaking causes glitches and slows down your phone, and so on. I know this might sound weird, but jailbreaking my phone actually increased the speed (as well as the wlan speed). Don't ask me how, I have no idea myself. The process was really simple and in the end you get loads of new features and customization options as well as loads of free apps. I used a really simple tool called QuickPwn, made by the geniuses at the iPhone DevTeam. (They have both Windows and Mac versions.) If you want some advanced options you might want to look into Pwnage Tool, which is also by the iPhone DevTeam.
Success!
My jailbroken phone! See the carrier! (Singtel ==>Sudeep) And the dock can now support more than 3 icons.
The official 'downloader' for jailbroken iPhones. Here you can download stuff like apps, themes and so on. (This is the successor of Installer.app)
And now I can play Quake on my iPhone. How cool is that. (I just found out there are Halo patches to make the Quake engine run Halo. Gonna look into that soon :D.)
And now my Safari looks like Chrome. :P (I downloaded the Safari theme from Cydia.)
And then there's this cool app that lets you run your apps in the background. So for example you can listen to music while browsing the web on Safari.
All in all, with the advancement of the jailbreaking scene, more and more apps are coming under the light. We just have to wait and see what happens next. (I doubt anything serious will happen unless St3v3 J0bs decides to sue someone over this.) Great job DevTeam!
Edit:
Due to popular demand (not really popular, eh? gerard, look here!), I shall be posting up the definition of 'jailbreak' from Wikipedia.
A jailbreak is the act or tool used to perform the act of breaking out of a chroot or jail in UNIX-like operating systems or bypassing digital rights management (DRM). In the former case, it allows the user to see files outside of the filesystem that the administrator intends to make available to the application or user in question. In the context of DRM, this allows the user to run arbitrarily defined code on DRM-encumbered devices as well as break out of chroot-like restrictions. DRM-encumbered devices such as the Xbox, iPhone and iPod Touch have repeatedly been subject to jailbreaks, allowing the execution of arbitrary code, but have had those jailbreaks disabled by vendor updates.[1][2] The iPod Touch/iPhone hacking community however, responds to the newest vendor updates by creating new ways to enable third party apps almost immediately. It was only in the wake of the popularity of the iPhone that the term jailbreaking became well known in popular culture worldwide.[citation needed]
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