Anyone have a IPhone or Ipod Touch?

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macscac

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i have billminder but i lost interest in it rather quickly..
seems that i couldnt get it to do recurring monthly debts..
odd
but its probably just me

I'll have to read through this all after I post, but the ones I use more often than others are Facebook (obvious reasons), Yahoo! (quick news check), VehiCal (tracks gas mileage, costs, and repairs), DirecTV (to set the DVR away from home), Bill Minder (obvious reasons again), PhoneFlicks (set my netflix), and Flixter (to check local movie theater times).

Some others that I use less often are iDisk (mac cloud computing and file sharing), Skype (when I'm traveling it's cheap to call home), Chase (check my cc balance & pay my bill), McCormick Recipe Finder (for if I'm craving something or want to try something different for dinner), and Dual Level (I've used this hanging pictures, leveling the TV stand, etc.).

Some other "cool" apps are Drink Pro (obvious reasons), Shazam (if your driving down the road and this awesome song comes on but you have no idea the name or author, launch this app and click the button, it uses the mic to listen for ~15 seconds and comes back with the author, name, album, etc and you can click the music video to play it right then again on your phone).
 

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Beautiful theme! I love it. I miss my iPhone...

But yeah, Jailbreak it. Kindle for iPhone is great (you can even get the free Stephen King eBook!! Totally worth it) and a game that I think is called iGod or something... You have these people on an island and you get to play with them :D

That would be Pocket God and yes I have it :D Wife thinks it's the best game in the world
 

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I did mine (and I'm technology adverse!). I found it quite easy and though I screwed it up the first try I just followed the steps through a second time and it worked perfectly. What I did was watch a youtube video walkthru (I watched it twice!) then I played it a third time and paused the video at each step so I could follow along.

From what I understand "bricking" your iphone is really hard to do (if it was easy I'm sure I would've done it!). Also, once jailbroken it's easy to get it back to "stock" with itunes.
 

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Correct. In fact, you have to avoid letting iTunes update your iPhone software or it will restore the factory settings (un-jailbroke as it were).


Now if only iPhone had the Pandora's battery, like the guaranteed way of tricking the older PSP games console into loading any ROM you like no matter how Sony update the security!! It would be so nice if "oops Apple updated my security ohh well just short these 2 pins and we flash whatever we want" I wonder if that will be possible some day?

Ohh yes and I have drowned mobiles before, iPhone can take on some water even with its battery in? Awesome!!

Although it was only down for a short time :(
 

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Apple can't tell if you restore it before taking it in (and an iTunes update will also unjailbreak it). Also, if it's fubar'ed to the point of not powering up then they'll most likely have to reset to factory settings (if they can even get it to power up). And finally, I've read online that the employees at the stores don't care and even if they notice it's jailbroken they won't do anything.

There's also been some talk online that jailbreaking legally doesn't void your warranty.

Once jailbroken you've opened up a world of possibilities:
-Customization control over EVERYTHING
-Ability to run apps not approved by Apple (and there's numerous reasons apps don't get or go through the approval process)
-Increased functionality (i.e. record video using the iphones camera - now a stock feature of iphones)
-Backup control - I can backup my game saves which is something iTunes does not do (at least not for all games, if any)
-Download/use tons of paid apps for free (though it's illegal and I publicly would never condone it!)
-Etc...
 

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Apple can't tell if you restore it before taking it in (and an iTunes update will also unjailbreak it). Also, if it's fubar'ed to the point of not powering up then they'll most likely have to reset to factory settings (if they can even get it to power up). And finally, I've read online that the employees at the stores don't care and even if they notice it's jailbroken they won't do anything.

There's also been some talk online that jailbreaking legally doesn't void your warranty.

Once jailbroken you've opened up a world of possibilities:
-Customization control over EVERYTHING
-Ability to run apps not approved by Apple (and there's numerous reasons apps don't get or go through the approval process)
-Increased functionality (i.e. record video using the iphones camera - now a stock feature of iphones)
-Backup control - I can backup my game saves which is something iTunes does not do (at least not for all games, if any)
-Download/use tons of paid apps for free (though it's illegal and I publicly would never condone it!)
-Etc...

I think I will prepare to jailbreak my iPod touch in that case :D especially if Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator is available!! No control pad but it sure is smaller than my PSP!!!
Will I lose the games I already bought?
 

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i just spent like two hours looking at some of the new iphone4g videos omg lol go look at teh youtube stuff of the new 4g iphone it will do it all.

do you recommend what jailbreak program to use?

thanks
chad

Type 'pandora handheld' into Youtube or Google and though its not a phone and not quite finished yet it looks like we finally have the powerful handheld of our dreams!!
 
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