One of the most sought-after electronic devices in China is called the  Apple Peel 500. In this land where pirated iPhones are king, the Apple Peel instantly converts an iPod Touch into an iPhone.
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People are sometimes confused by the terminology used for setting their iPhones free. The terms “jailbreaking” and “unlocking” are often used interchangeably, but they are different. Here’s what the two terms mean.
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Anybody that has immediate and intimate access to the guts of your device, whether that be an iPhone or Android device, can do pretty much whatever they want. Thereupon, if you get your knickers in a twist and squint really hard, you’ll see that a recent Apple patent carries the mark of the beast.
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When a U.S. government agency, the Copyright Office, decided that it definitely was not illegal to jailbreak your iPhone, a lot of iPhone owners new and old reexamined the idea of a jailbreak.
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Hot on the heels of our column “Top 10 reasons NOT to jailbreak your iPhone 4” here is the opposite: the top ten reasons, in our humble opinion, for setting your iPhone free of the Apple walled garden.
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Yes, it’s now absolutely certain that it’s not illegal to jailbreak your iPhone. Still, there must be reasons that you should not make that move to get the ultimate freedom for your Apple handset. What are they?
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Since writing a column titled “How to tether an iPhone 4” a few days ago, I have had a lot of requests to talk about a much less expensive alternative for jailbroken iPhones, an app called MyWi.
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There are times when it would be nice to have access to the file system on your iPhone, but jailbreaking it (legal or not) seems like at least one step too far. Here’s a way to get to the file system without jailbreaking.
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The latest patch (iOS4 4.0.2) is out, but it apparently does not completely stop the jailbreaking of all Iphones, despite having filled much of the armor chink left by the infamous hacker Comex.
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It is now possible to run some things Flash on your iPhone, despite the well-known quarrel between Adobe and Steve Jobs. The catch is that you have to jailbreak your phone to do it. Will you?
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