Free the iPhone/iPod Touch

[teflon]

I got an iPod Touch about a month ago and it's really cool. But I thought it was about time to mess with it and potentially ruin it. So I Googled up how to 'jailbreak' it, which means you can add more applications to it which people design themselves.

It took a few hours of head-scratching and translating American kids gibberish into something I could follow inside my head, but I managed it, and it's not actually that difficult. If it was properly explained, anyone could do it.
It's worth it too, you can change your wallpaper and all your icons, add and remove files wirelessly (how cool is that?), add RSS feeds, read .pdf files, play classic emulator games like NES and GBA, loads of stuff.
Not to mention get all the 'paid-for' applications free which is the only reason I can't legally explain how to do it here.
You can rearrange the partition so you can have more room for applications. Add all that to the already amazing Google Earth, email, internet browser, and hundreds of free games and utilities you can get legitimately from iTunes.

The process is almost identical for the iPhone, and I find it hard to imagine Apple bringing out an app so 'killer' that I ever revert back to their official firmware. Even so, it's only a couple of clicks in iTunes to erase all traces of messing or 'jailbreaking' as the Americans insist on calling it. That's a Google tip.

I can't see any reason why people shouldn't jeopardise their warranty on a £300 toy with something as silly as a mis-timed mouse-click.