Okay, first things first : Jailbreaking or unlocking you iPhone may void your warranty. Jailbreaking your iPhone could be illegal soon, if Apple had their way (see “Apple says jailbreaking is illegal” from The unofficial Apple Weblog). Not only that, it is possible to “brick” your expensive iPhone or iPod Touch.  By writing this article I am in no way suggesting that anyone go out and attempt to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone or Jailbreak your iPod Touch.

Before I had an iPhone, I had an iPod Touch. This was also before the Apple App Store was announced, and jailbreaking was the only way to get third part applications onto the iPhone and iPod Touch. I decided to try jailbreaking my iPod Touch. There were large a number of Jailbreak applications around.  It seemed that Apple had given up fighting the jailbreaking apps, but they were actually busy with the App Store. I chose the easiest to use Jailbreak application, but was still cautious. Fortunately I didn’t try that application on an iPhone, because apparently it was not as good with unlocking. The next firmware update was the App store update and I didn’t bother to Jailbreak the iPod Touch after that.

Then I got a 3G iPhone…(to be continued)