Jail Breaked

Today I managed to "Jail Break" my iPhone.

I hadn't heard about jail breaking before, but today I was told all about it by Zzz, and after some research and a relatively complicated procedure, I managed to do it.

Jailbreaking is the underground term for letting the iPhone install and run third-party applications. Apple have been very crappy with third-party developers, and essentially not much can be ran on the iPhone unless it's via Apple.

My iPhone was at version 1.1.2, that had to be downgraded to 1.1.1, then jailbreaked, then patched, then upgraded again. After all this the phone ends up with an installer app, which checks loads of sites for apps and installs them with a, erm not click, erm press (?) or touch (!) of a finger!

I've installed loads of things now: an arabic SMS app (the iPhone doesn't read arabic yet), some games (the usual suspects), and some tweaks to the system.

The best thing about it is something called "Summerboard", which lets you customise the whole UI. It also downloads themes for you, and I've fallen in love with something called "Smooth", a picture of which is below (taken by a screenshot app I downloaded also, so the picture below is actually from my iPhone!)

Apple have said that they're happy with the progress these apps are doing, and it may well all become official one day. Provided we don't all use the anysim.app that is so easily downloadable with one "touch".....