{"id":7446,"date":"2012-06-29T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:59:22","slug":"5-years-iphone-reflection-of-a-day-1-user-jailbreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/5-years-iphone-reflection-of-a-day-1-user-jailbreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Years of the iPhone. Reflection of a day 1 user and jailbreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The First iPhone<\/p><\/div>\n

I was one of the first people to get the first iphone.\u00a0 The funny thing is, I really did not want it.\u00a0 I was attending a conference that got a special deal to buy the first batch of phones.\u00a0 $600.\u00a0 Ug.\u00a0 I was going to sell it after the conference, only to have the price drop on me.\u00a0 So as I fought with AT&T to get my $200, I found that it was not bad… Then came jailbreak and everything changed.<\/p>\n

I was a treo 650 user for a long time.\u00a0 Loaded all kinds of cool games, had it connected to a remote bluetooth GPS so that I had voice and visual directions, and of course could surf the web, hacked it so I can take movies.\u00a0 It was good.\u00a0 Then came the jailbroken iphone<\/a>.\u00a0 Amazing. And I have never looked back.<\/p>\n

In the early days of jailbreaking, you could take movies, record sounds, get your location on the map (it used cell tower doppler, but better then nothing) change the background.. heck change lots of elements of the UI, play Quake (Yes Play Quake!), default screen with email, weather sms, custom ringtones, sweet 3D racing games, play guitar, even remote access to my desktop.\u00a0 It was the first time I truly felt like I had a computer that was also a phone, instead of a phone that I was trying to use like a computer. Further, the experience was so much smoother, so refined that it was actually a pleasure to use.\u00a0 Something I’ve never experienced with other phones. And I loved showing it off.\u00a0 Back when the phone was only a few months old, I found that if I ever took it out for any reason, I would be doing yet another demo once people saw it in my hand.<\/p>\n

And now here we are five years later.\u00a0 Many of the things we did back in the version 1 jailbreak days we take for granted now, but even still, I cannot use my iphone for more then 5 days without having to jailbreak because there are still so many great features and functions that jailbreaking offers.\u00a0 I still keep a list of my 10 ten jailbreak apps for iphone<\/a>, but with each OS update, I find fewer and fewer reasons to rejailbreak my phone after an update.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I found a REALLY old post when I was just starting to write about the phone where I listed my favorite apps. Can you guess which ones still need jailbreak? \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 BTW, just for fun I went looking for the oldest pic I took with an iphone. Have not found it yet, but here is once from Oct 2007 that was my background for 4 years. (at the end of the post)<\/p>\n