Jailbreak iPhone 3G

The most common reasons to jailbreak an iPhone 3G are to gain access to third party apps for free without using the iTunes App Store, video camera features, extensive personal customization and using the iPhone as a modem for laptops, but there are other features available that make it worth performing a jailbreak on an iPhone.

The biggest advantage of jailbreaking an Apple iPhone is gaining access to the following features.

Open SSH is a handy tool for copying files to and from your iPhone. Open SSH gives iPhone user root access to the phone to enable the transferring of NES roms, voicemail, text files and more. This is a great way to back up text messages, MMS messages and data from your iPhone without ever having to plug it into the computer.

VNSea is an amazing app that allows you to remotely control a home computer from your iPhone. This may seem a little useless but if you are running a program on your computer such as a DVD burning program and you need to leave you can still check on the program's progress with VNSea.

Better Gaming options are available on the Apple iPhone but only if you are willing to shell out the bucks to download the apps from the iTunes App Store. Jailbreaking your iPhone gives you better gaming options like the NES Emulator for free.

The NES Emulator and the InfoNES are programs that allow you to play Nintendo games on your iPhone which is way better than the boring old free games that are available for download in the iTunes App Store.

The GSPhone program allows iPhone users to play Game Boy games on a jailbroken iPhone.

Categories is an app that's available through Cydia on an Apple iPhone that's been jailbroken. It works like a filing cabinet that allows you to organize the icons on your iPhone springboard.

Categories are customizable both in appearance and functionality. With categories you can add more apps to your springboard while taking up a minimal amount of space. It's an ideal app for removing clutter on your springboard and helping you locate apps quickly without having to scroll through page after page of icons.

The nice thing about the categories app is that it is accessible through the Cydia installer that comes with the jailbreak software.

Backgrounder is one of the most useable tools for the iPhone since an iPhone that has not been jailbroken can only run one app at a time. What the backgrounder app does is allow iPhone users to run more than one app at the same time.

What this means is that with the backgrounder app you can chat, surf the net or text while running another app like music in the background.

If these apps aren't enticing enough to make you want to jailbreak your iPhone 3G then consider that with Cydia you can install apps that allow you to customize your springboard, change your sounds, alter icons, install themes and more for free without ever accessing iTunes.

*WARNING*

Performing a jailbreak on an iPhone 3G will void your warranty, however if you restore the iPhone back to the original factory settings before you ship it back to Apple you will still have an intact warranty.

Good luck to you in jailbreaking your iPhone, I'm off to install Crash Bandicoot on my iPhone!