How To Jailbreak Your iPhone And Why You Want To

So you’ve been hearing all about “jailbreaking” on the iPhone but what is that? Find out today as we step through the myths and facts around jailbreaking!

iPhones to use other cell phone providers like T-mobile and getting access to all sorts of apps not available at the iTunes store.

Update: Folks, looks like I was one week late with this. As of 9/10/2009 Apple has blocked the ability for people to restore firmware versioned at 3.0 and older.  This means if you have not jailbroke your phone yet, you will need to wait until the iPhone Dev Team releases a jailbreak for 3.1. I’ll do a new show to ensure you have the most up to date info!

We’ll explain:

• Apple’s device known as the iPhone
• What is jailbreaking (on Twitter #jailbreak)
• Why you would want to jailbreak your iPhone
• What you need to jailbreak your iPhone
• How to buy an iPhone without a 2 year AT&T contract
• Upgrading your iPhone when Apple releases new software
• The iPhone and iTunes

AND!

We’ll go through a live demo of jailbreaking using iClarified’s Tutorial: How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 3GS on OS 3.0.x Using RedSn0w (Windows)

Resources

NUMBER ONE place to go to check on iPhone Jailbreak status is the iPhone Dev Team blog

iClarified has great tutorials on jailbreaking step by step

Wikipedia in iPhone Jailbreaking

Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run unofficial code on their devices bypassing Apple’s official distribution mechanism, the App Store. Once jailbroken, iPhone users are able to download many applications previously unavailable through the App Store via unofficial installers such as Cydia and Icy. It’s estimated that 4 million (out of 40 million) iPods and iPhones are jailbroken. 

Warning from the iPhone Dev Team, creators of QuickPwn, Yellowsn0w, Redsn0w, Ultrasn0w, PwnageTool:

QuickPwn.com and Yellowsn0w.net, and their associated Twitter accounts, are not officially-sanctioned sites for news or support on Dev Team applications. They have been set up solely to profit financially from the reputation of the Dev Team and visiting is highly discouraged.

Photo credit: purplelime

So you've been hearing all about "jailbreaking" on the iPhone but what is that? Find out today as we step through the myths and facts around jailbreaking!