Why jailbreak your iPhone? To me, every application available in Cydia is a good reason to jailbreak your iPhone. Simply said, jailbreaking your iPhone will allow you to use many applications that are not available (and will probably never be) in the App Store.
Here are 30 excellent reasons to jailbreak your iPhone:
- It’s risk-free. Worst case scenario, you can restore your iPhone to factory settings
- Install third-party applications with Cydia
- Get MMS with SwirlyMMS
- Add custom notification sounds and ringtones for free
- Use a free turn by turn GPS with xGPS
- Get video recording for your iPhone 2G or 3G with Cycorder
- Stream live videos with Qik
- Use Voice Over IP apps over 3G and Edge with VoIPover3G
- Enable Flash with iMobileCinema
- Download and save YouTube videos on your iPhone with MxTube
- Tether your iPhone with PDAnet
- View your iPhone on your TV with TVOut
- Play Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and PlayStation games with emulators
- Watch every single episode of South Park, American Dad, Family Guy, the Simpsons, the Office, and Futurama for free
- Filter incoming calls with iBlackList
- Email your voicemails with Voicemail Forwarder
- Customize the look and feel of your iPhone with WinterBoard
- Quickly manage your settings preferences with BossPrefs
- Sort your apps into folders with Categories
- Run apps in the background with Backgrounder
- Quickly reply to SMS with iRealSMS
- Track your lost/stolen iPhone with iLocalis
- Display information such as emails, SMS, calendar and more directly on your lock screen with IntelliScreen
- Spoof your caller ID with 123Spoof
- Change your iPhone fonts with FontSwap
- Get haptic feedback for your keyboard with HapticPro
- Show a picture of your contacts in your contact list with Cyntact
- Transfer files via Bluetooh with iBluetooth
- Enable battery percentage on the 2G and 3G with Battery Percentage
- Unlock your iPhone
Can you think of more reasons to jailbreak? If so, please add them by leaving a comment below.
