MY iPhone 3G is awesome. Much love to those who designed and built it. It truly is the work of geniuses.
An often overlooked feature of the iPhone is its numerous screens, each accessible by swiping your finger across the screen from left to right. For your viewing pleasure I have taken screenshots of my screens…
The above screenshot shows my main home screen with my most often used applications and services such as Messages, Calendar, Camera, Google Maps, etc. Touch any icon for a few seconds and you can move it around anywhere you like.
The above screenshot is largely made up of the original apps I had in the first few months of getting my iPhone. My favourite on here are iShoot and HoldEm. Wikipanion is invalable. You may have noticed that the bottom four icons (Phone, Mail, iPod and Safari) remain the same. They’re for ease of access.
The next screenshot (above) contains some of the newer apps I have downloaded over the past few months. TVGuide is great, and Paper Toss is a fantastic time waster.
The next screen is where it gets interesting…
The above screenshot is where the funkier stuff happens, and some of it is stuff Apple strictly do not approve of. See the fourth app on the right at the top called Cydia? That’s what appears when an iPhone has been ‘jailbroken’. For those not in the know, ‘jailbroken’ means that an iPhone has been modified by software to let it do things that Apple don’t approve of, such as installing third-party non-approved apps. Jailbreaking is easy, not particularly risky, and it opens up the iPhone to a whole world of possibilities. The apps from Cydia are Flashlight (much brighter than any Apple-approved flashlights), genesis4iphone (plays Sega Megadrive/Genesis games), iPoints, Terminal, XKCD comics and Quakes. The rest are Apple App Store apps.
The above screenshot has just one app in it – Rope’n'Fly.
The final screenshot below is something that non-Jailbroken iPhones will never see…
The above screenshot is of a magic little screen. A swipe of the bar at the top of any normal screen which says the battery life, signal strength, network etc and this pops up. From here it tells you what your IP addresses are, how much memory is left, and crucially it lets you kill services quickly and easily just by pressing them. I use this a lot when traveling because I use one of those FM broadcaster thingies which broadcasts sound from my iPhone on a specific frequency which is picked up by my car radio. Interference makes it hard to listen to so I quickly and easily switch 3G and Phone modes off. No more interference!
Try doing all that on a BlackBerry.
Tags: App Store, Apple, apps, iPhone, jailbreak, jailbroken, technology
