iPhone Hacking

Well it's finally out in the UK, having been shipped at the slightly bizzare time of 6:02 on 9th November... Weird...

Oh well for those of you who have bought it, good luck with it! I myself don't wish to change network and take out a contract, although the contract is actually very reasonable, I just have no point in it personally!

For those of you who have bought an iPhone to hack it, don't. Why? Well very simple really. Apple are systematically going through the hacks available and release updates for the iPhone, which will not only make the hack useless, but bricks the iPhone, making it totally unuseable. Apple have released a load of bull sh*t as a statement as to why the phone becomes bricked instead of the truth. Oh well!

Yes it is true that you can constantly just stay ahead, but it'll take a lot of work and research to keep up and reverse your old hacks so you can use the new ones.
There are really too many to name, but ever since update 1.1.1, hacks have become very spartan...

If you want to try and keep up, here's a nice website, which'll help you to a degree
http://www.iphonehacks.com/



To be honest though free hacks won't last very long and you'll have to pay in excess of £60 to buy a better one. You also won't be able to receive any of the firmware updates. A real blow to many of us, who really want things like video to be able to be shot on the phone.

Also, beyond a certain point, you can't actually refuse the update, and will have to update, meaning that your hack is broken and your phone is bricked.

At this point Apple approximates that 1/10 of the iPhones bought were bought to be hacked, and hack websites estimate more, with nearly 900,000 copies of jail-break being downloaded.

Jail-break was the #1 hack until 1.1.1, which totally bricked the iPhone. Sim Free is the next biggest hack, with an update already available to allow continued to Hacking. Version 1.6 is the current top as I write this.

Well my advice to any of you thinking of hacking the iPhone, don't. You'll spend a lot of time and then maybe miss just one update and POOF! There goes your phone. You actually cannot undo the damage, well not without considerable difficulty, and you don't get any of the updates, that will not only improve the iPhone, but fix many glitches.