[palish]

Oooh! Someone said "Jailbreak"!

I've been dying to ask: What kinds of awesome things can you do with a jailbroken iPhone? I know you can install VLC + some software to stream videos from some other computer via wifi, which is pretty sweet. What else?

I've been considering Jailbreaking, but it would be cool to have a compelling, shiny reason.

[StavrosK]

You can install lockinfo:

http://thew0rd.com/wp-content/gallery/postrelated/lockinfo.p...

[palish]

Cool! That's definitely shiny!

I can do all of that with my current iPhone anyway though.

Gimme a reason to void the warranty... god knows I want to!

[StavrosK]

Wait, how can you do that with an unjailbroken iPhone?

[palish]

Well, what you showed, will display:

- any missed calls

- any new voicemails

- and any new text messages.

Each of those, I can check simply by sliding the "unlock" slider.

The daily event isn't really relevant because all events will alert me anyway (because they beep when it's time to do it).

Mail again isn't very relevant.. I'm mostly at a computer all day, I have email open anyway.

The weather I just don't care about.

Apologies for sounding argumentative / etc, I don't mean to! I am merely pointing out that I want to do something cool with a Jailbroken iPhone, something I can't do with my regular iPhone. Else I'll pass. :)

[StavrosK]

Ah, well, it doesn't make it magical, it just makes it more useful... For example, my lock button is broken but I can shake to lock it. Otherwise I would be out of luck.