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IPhone -”Jailbreaking” Your iPhone Won’t Land You in Jail Anymore

The FCC announced Monday that the once-illegal - albeit controversial - practice of “jailbreaking” cell phones is now legal. According to Yahoo News, even though Apple seriously frowns upon it, there are about a million iPhone users that have successfully jailbroken their iPhones.

Even though this process was, “technically illegal,” no one was prosecuted whatsoever for jailbreaking a mobile phone.

Jailbreaking is known as the practice of “breaking into” your phone so that it can be used either by another network (like iPhones that run on T-Mobile) or allow it to use other applications than the ones that are approved by Apple or another mobile provider.

While there are already inlaid consequences with this method – like voiding your phone’s warranty; it no longer includes jail time.

Tech writer Christopher Null agrees that most jailbroken phones are found on the T-Mobile network or other overseas carriers and that some of the applications that can be used on a jailbroken phone include “Safari ad-blocking apps, alternate keyboard layouts, or programs that chance the interface to the iPhone’s SMS system and the way the icons are laid out.”

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Apple uses app to distribute iPhone 4 bumpers

Apple has begun allocating iPhone 4 bumpers to address concerns that touching certain parts of the handset chokes mobile signal strength.

In true Apple style, the free bumpers were made available through an application that could be downloaded to iPhones from the company’s online iTunes store.

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