The legality, adavantages and how-to of jailbreaking

The legality, adavantages and how-to of jailbreaking

A friend just asked me what jailbreaking her Verizon (CDMA) means... Here is my response:

A basic primer to the legality adavantages and how-to of jailbreaking your iPhone. This should get u started:
http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/what-is-jailbreaking/

(one thing wrong in there is that it "voids your warranty"-- that's only if you return your phone to apple or verizon for repair *without* restoring it to factory default settings first-- which is easy).

FCC also recently ruled jailbreaking to be your LEGAL RIGHT:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236

According to this, you should be able to jailbreak your verizon iphone now:
http://mygadgetnews.com/2011/02/06/verizon-iphone-4-ios-4-2-6-jailbroken-with-greenpois0n/

HERE IS HOW:
http://mygadgetnews.com/2011/02/04/how-to-jailbreak-iphone-4-iphone-3gs-untethered-on-ios-4-2-1-using-greenpois0n-rc5/

A couple cool things jailbreaking allows you to do:
1) Talk FREE (not using you minutes) anywhere in the world using skype *without using any of your service plan minutes* (using the jailbreak app in the Cydia store called 3G Unrestricter)

2) tether to your iPhone and use it as a "thumb-drive" type storage unit and as a wifi-hotspot (an anywhere mobile connection to the Internet for an unlimited number of users) by downloading anf using the jailbreak app in the Cydia store called "my-wi")

LASTLY, here is a post I wrote recommending going 100% paperless by downloading to your iphone and using finarxfax (faxing) and zosh (signing):

http://www.wheresmystapler.net/2010/08/goodbye-paper-it-been-good-36-year-run.html