Advantages Of Jailbreaking.....!

Winterboard

This is probably how your iPhone or iPod Touch looks without jailbreaking. There’s a generic black background that makes sure it doesn’t stand out from the millions of iPhones out there. The only time you see your wallpaper is the unlock screen for a split second before you actually start using your iPhone. Winterboard is perhaps the most popular reason people jailbreak their iPhones! The iPhone jailbreak will allow you to customize your springboard through the jailbreak-only app Winterboard! You can download themes (there are tons of them out there) to make your iPhone look like this.

You can change everything from the sounds to the unlock screen sliders to the keyboard itself but only if you jailbreak the iPhone or iPod Touch! A definite Advantage.


The possibilities are pretty endless here.

AnyRing

With AnyRing you can easily select any song on your iPod (or record your own voice) to play as a ringtone. iPod Ringtone even lets you select the starting/ending point in the song to play when the ringtone is played in real-time. Does not require any audio conversion of any type! * New - Can now transfer Ringtones over Bluetooth !

iBluetooth

It's the first iPhone app for the jailbroken iPhone that allows users to transfer files

from their iPhone via Bluetooth, a feature which has been missing from the iPhone since its launch.

 

Categories

If you’ve had your iPhone for a while, it can get pretty messy. Your apps are all out there on your springboard and you will have to sift through the various icons to find the app you need. With the Categories app, you can organize all your apps into folders!





The advantages of categories is that it can clear up the app clutter on your springboard and make it easier to find the apps that you need.

Backgrounder

Backgrounding is a highly anticipated update feature that has yet to be added by Apple.


if you jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch you have access to the backgrounder which will provide the service. The disadvantage to this app is that you will have to watch which apps you have running or else you can slow your iPhone or iPod Touch significantly. This service is especially useful for instant messenging apps like AIM.

Modem

Ever wanted to use your iPhone’s 3G connection on your laptop? You won’t be able to download torrents but you can definitely get some work done with the modem

app. The name is iPhonemodem and it makes tethering a reality. We’ve had some trouble getting the 3G to work but there are some people out there who have successfully tethered their iPhone’s 3G connection to their computers. Once again, another advantage to jailbreak!

Games

Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch will open up a new world of games. Developers who have become fed up with Apple’s draconian app store rules brought their talent into the third party arena and there are some wonderful games available. The NES emulator will enable play of old school NES games. There’s also a Playstation emulator and tons of ported games like Doom!

Unlock

If you wish to unlock your iPhone (for use with other carriers besides AT&T here in the U.S) some time in the future when the iPhone-dev team release their soft unlock, you will have to jailbreak your iPhone 3G first.
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Disadvantages

We get a lot of people asking us the disadvantages to jailbreaking the iPhone or iPod Touch. After all, it seems too good to be true? There is a very very slim chance that you can brick your iPhone or iPod Touch (which basically means rendering it unresponsive). But those are usually fixed by doing a reset (press and hold the home and sleep buttons at the same time). You can then reinstall firmware 2.2 and try again. Doing the research might set you back 20 minutes or so and the whole process might take another 15 minutes. If you ever take it back to Apple for warranty, you probably don’t want them to see that you’ve jailbroken it so you might spend another 10 minutes doing a firmware restore through iTunes to set your iPhone or iPod Touch back to its original settings.

Source: iphonespies