I have a Touch, quester and most of the apps that are for the iPhone are also for the Touch. it will tell you when you click on the app if it's compatible with both.

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Jailbreaking has been completely safe and invisible for a while. If you do a software restore, the jailbreak disappears (along with all software you installed thanks to the jailbreak) so you can always undo it if you need service. It doesn't void the warranty, either. I read extensively before doing it and was unable to find a single case of jailbreaking hurting the phone or causing service issues, at least since the very early days of the process. A couple of people crashed their phone during the process or by installing some crazy conflicting software, but a software restore from iTunes got them right back to normal.

Jailbreaking is also the first step toward unlocking. Unlocking may be more risky than jailbreaking, I never really looked.

For me, the programs that have made jailbreaking worth it are the SBsettings toggles (easily switch 3G/WiFi/airport mode on and off with a swipe and a touch, rather than having to dig through the settings menu), the ability to hide icons you don't use (bye, built-in useless Weather app!), the ability to run Pandora and Skype in the background (especially useful this week, when I'm in Canada. Skype is free for talking to my girlfriend, but AT&T would like to charge me a lot of money), Offline Maps, which lets you save the Google Maps caches on your phone so you can use Maps without internet access (again, very useful here - I completely explored the area we're in with maps before leaving the hotel and it's still there when I leave), and the SMS quick reply / quick send mentioned earlier. If I ever get a Google Voice account I imagine GV Mobile will be nice, since Apple/AT&T have decided that they won't let anything Google Voice related in the app store.

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Gris,

If I ever get a Google Voice account I imagine GV Mobile will be nice, since Apple/AT&T have decided that they won't let anything Google Voice related in the app store.

The FCC is investigating, so I wonder if they will allow this functionality sooner as opposed to later?

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SBsettings toggles (easily switch 3G/WiFi/airport mode on and off with a swipe and a touch, rather than having to dig through the settings menu)

That would be nice.

the ability to hide icons you don't use (bye, built-in useless Weather app!)

I just made a page of icons at the very end of the line for stuff I never/rarely use. YouTube, AppStore, ITMS, all in the back of the line. So that doesn't bother me.

the ability to run Pandora and Skype in the background

That is pretty killer. does it run when your phone is in standby mode? (screen off, in your pocket, so you are logged on to Skype, available to take a call?)

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That is pretty killer. does it run when your phone is in standby mode?

Yes. It's good. I mean, it is definitely a battery drain, but if that's not a bother then it's great.

ETA: For this to work, you also need a utility called KeepAwake that keeps your wifi connected when your phone goes to sleep. That's what really drains the battery.

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So Radio Shack is rebranding itself as "The Shack".

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Yeah. I can't wait to say to my hipster friends, "Hey dudes, let's all go to The Shack!"

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They're abandoning their core market of ham radio enthusiasts. I'm sure they'll go out of business pretty quickly now.

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Hey now, I've been to radio shack a good three times in the last decade. Okay, I see your point.

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So Radio Shack is rebranding itself as "The Shack".

The Love Shack?

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