There was the first iPhone 4 jailbreak on Sunday. The hack liberates iPhone 4 owners from the shackles of the Apple App Store. Unapproved stores can download apps onto your iPhone 4 with this jailbreak. An advantage of jailbreaking destined to become immensely popular is unlocking access to other networks than AT and T. Apple, which exercises tight control over the iPhone network and iPhone app approval process, says jailbreaking the iPhone 4 “can severely degrade the experience”.
How to download the iPhone jailbreak
Less than a week after copyright officials in the U.S. ruled that jailbreaking the iPhone 4 is legal, a developer has released an app intended to do it. The iPhone 4 jailbreak is at jailbreakme.com for individuals who want it. iPhone 4 owners can get apps from stores other than the Apple App Store with the iPhone 4 jailbreak hack. To download the iPhone jailbreak, visit that website using the Safari browser on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. This jailbreak is special since you can download it straight onto your iPhone instead of going to your computer first.
Apple not thrilled about legal jailbreaking
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it possible for jailbreaking to be legal. Information week reports the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) opened the door to legal download of the iPhone jailbreak last week when it said hacking the iPhone to circumvent Apple’s app approval process doesn’t violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ”Innocuous at worst and beneficial at best,” is what LOC’s chief librarian said on the matter of jailbreaking Apple strenuously disagreed. Jailbreaking does avoid the warranty on devices although it is now legal.
Jailbreak connects iPhone to T-Mobile
The iPhone 4 jailbreak was so popular that jailbreakme.com could hardly stay online Sunday. After using the jailbreak, more apps could be unlocked making it possible to use networks other than AT and T. In the U.S., unlocked iPhones will work on the T-Mobile network, but because of technical differences, jailbreaking the iPhone 4 will not allow it to work on Verizon or Sprint.
Further reading
Apple
support.apple.com/kb/ht3743
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