Apple iPhone 5
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- karni
- 9C9
- 16 Aug 2013
10 good reasons to jailbreak your iPhone, no matter what generation
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I guess there’s a large number of iPhone owners that are still hesitant to jailbreak their iPhones. They consider jailbreaking a dangerous and daunting task that may eventually void their warranty. Since I’m on the other side of that barricade, I’ve put down a nice list of the 10 new features you will get if you go for jailbreaking. The benefits are more than ten, but I’ve compiled the most major ones.
Jailbreaking is a software process that unlocks the access to the iPhone original system files so that you can modify some of them for the better. You shouldn’t confuse it with a carrier unlock. Jailbreaking allows us to unleash the true power of the Apple’s iPhone.
Getting your iPhone jailbroken is like getting a totally different device – at least software-wise. And while I find it next to impossible to resist the tempting new features, I can totally understand you may have perfectly good reasons to keep your iPhone untouched. But hopefully, this list will help you convert.
And a word of warning! This post is not a tutorial in jailbreaking your iPhone. If you need one, a nice place to start is iClarified iPhone section. Installing unofficial third-party apps may cause unwanted side effects so always rely on your good judgment when dealing with those. I am not to be held responsible for any damage you may inflict to your iPhone.
1. Multitasking
The first new benefit from jailbreaking is surely true multitasking. There is a free and a paid app that both offer task switching and management each in its own way. Both depend on a third-party app – the free Backgrounder – to do the minimizing for them. While that may sound complex, switching apps is as easy as it gets.
The free task manager is called Kirikae and shows the running apps as a list. Tapping one will switch to it, while a finger swipe reveals a button to kill the process.
Multifl0w is the paid task manager. It offers the same functionality as Kirikae, but uses a cover-flow-like view for your running apps. It’s kinda like the way Safari displays the opened tabs. Multifl0w looks really fancy and even outperforms Palm Pre’s Card Interface at times.
Lockscreen applications
Thanks to the several available lockscreen applications like LockInfo and IntelliScreen, you can get acess to your calls, messages, calendar events, weather information, etc. straight from the iPhone lockscreen.
Improved messaging
The devil is in the details, they say… The iPhone is skimpy on a lot of them details. Delivery reports and a sms character counter are certainly two of those.
With the help of the SMS Helper app you get a nicely integrated character counter, which looks as if Apple made it themselves.
Need delivery reports? The iPhoneDelivery is a simple, but highly useful app that’s capable of *delivering* you delivery reports in various customizable ways.
Make ringtones out of your music without iTunes
The iPhone ringtone limitations are quite a bugger. The AnyRing app will set your incoming calls music free of Apple.
You can choose any song from your iPod library, trim it and assign it as a ringtone or alarm tone. The downside is that you have to pay for AnyRing itself (yes, the most innovative unofficial apps are paid).
6. Video recording on iPhone 2G and 3G
You don’t have to own an iPhone 3GS to shoot video. Thanks to the Cycorder app you can capture videos at CIF resolution at 15fps, which is way better than that joke of a video recorder in the official AppStore.
7. File access and management
After you jailbreak your iPhone, you have full access to the file system. The iFile app is a popular file manager running directly on your iPhone. It is capable of copying, cutting, moving, renaming and deleting files.
8. Safari file download manager
if you’ve missed having a way to download files on the iPhone, you may be interested in the Safari download plug-in. It’s basically a download manager for the mobile Safari browser. However you will need a file manager to access the files once they’re downloaded.
9. Extended TV-out functionality
If you are tired of the TV-out restrictions in your iPhone, you’re in for a nice surprise once you jailbreak your iPhone. The TVOut app is here to help. It enables the TV-out output for all iPhone applications. It has some problems with the landscape apps, but there’s another application called Landscape TV Out that fixes that as well. Now imagine playing your iPhone games on a big TV screen.
10. Misc UI improvements
As I mentioned in the beginning of the article, there are a lot of other benefits from jailbreaking. Though none of them is a major thing, I appreciate every single one.
If you happen to own an iPhone 2G or 3G you will most definitely welcome the battery percentage level (3GS-style) that can be enabled via the asBattery app.
Perhaps all iPhone users will appreciate the HapticPro app, which enables vibration touch feedback. The SBSettings app is practical as well. It gives you quick access to various features and it’s always a single swipe away – some of the functionality it offers is a basic task manager, 3G, Wi-Fi and EDGE switches, respring shortcuts and even more
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- Claire
- nEw
- 16 Aug 2013
I can't wait for the new software to come out. It looks absolutely fantastic, and well done to Jony Ives.
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- AnonD-102339
- K2F
- 16 Aug 2013
Bro, have you used both of them? S4 is just waste of money.
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- Tech Guru
- PTS
- 16 Aug 2013
According to Apple, any display with high resolution means any display with more than 300 ppi is called Retina display. Based on this, Retina is just a trademark taken by Apple. So Retina means nothing new it has, it is just a display having more than 300 ppi resolution fore mobile phone and more than 220 ppi for tablet.
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- Diki
- ttv
- 16 Aug 2013
santana, 15 Aug 2013anyone having a creeky noise when pressing some part of the... moreCreaky noise? I think you got a fake iphone5
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- AnonD-154773
- Pxc
- 16 Aug 2013
IOS7 Beta 6 is now available.
http://www.imore.com/apple-releases-ios-7-beta-6-developers-go-get-it
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- AnonD-154773
- Pxc
- 16 Aug 2013
IOS7 Beta 6 is now available for download... ;)
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- U{x
- 15 Aug 2013
prise is too high,no blue toth conectivity to other phone-galaxy s4 ,htc butterfly ,sony expiria z(ultra) is better
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- MKP
- pu7
- 15 Aug 2013
Anonymous, 15 Aug 2013i love it so much but now i think galaxys4 is better than thisNo my friend. Your selection is always good. This smart phone is a real phone not like a plastic crap.
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- MKP
- pu7
- 15 Aug 2013
It is the best and standard phone than any other make and model. Not small or big. Easy one hand operation. The head phones boom good and feel something great in our hand when carrying. With 3G activated, the battery time reduces. A good, handy, best and quality made phone.
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- Anonymous
- 9E6
- 15 Aug 2013
its the best among the other iphone like 4s
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- Anonymous
- JEh
- 15 Aug 2013
i love it so much but now i think galaxys4 is better than this
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- CBD1999
- sBS
- 15 Aug 2013
AnonD-169006, 14 Aug 2013Please stop being an apple fanboy, he already said that he ... moreThe fact there are fanboys implies how successful the company already is, period. I agree the specs, like all their products, are never up to the most current tech. But that's because they'd rather use technology that's proven rather than the latest flaw infested rubbish. At least that's how Steve Jobs did it. Though the competing phones are quite cool in their own way, look how many issues they have compared to iPhone. Numbers don't lie. BTW jealousy and hate is detrimental to your health. ;)
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- dr.ravi
- t}Y
- 15 Aug 2013
can sprint iphone 5 be unlocked?? if yes, how??
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- Deathanth
- Mfy
- 15 Aug 2013
The best in town. Not like the copies of Samsung
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- Anonymous
- PGX
- 15 Aug 2013
AnonD-169006, 14 Aug 2013Please stop being an apple fanboy, he already said that he ... moreNo.. from the flaws he pointed out, either he never have iPhone 5 or he have no idea how to use the phone.
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- santana
- gC7
- 15 Aug 2013
anyone having a creeky noise when pressing some part of the screen, what should i do brothers?
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- nicky
- nEK
- 14 Aug 2013
How do I put the Sim card ibn ?????
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- surez.km
- t}q
- 14 Aug 2013
The iSight camera on iphone takes high-quality photos.It may be the only camera you ever need.The advanced optics capture great photo data,and then hardware and software work togather to make behind-the-sence image and colour adjustments......
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- AnonD-169006
- t7J
- 14 Aug 2013
Please stop being an apple fanboy, he already said that he owns an iphone 5 and talked about it's flaws, yet you blabber about him to not have been able to hold an iphone before.