iDongle Easily Jailbreaks Your iPhone
This device can jailbreak your iPhone via the dock connector.
Looking to jailbreak your iPhone but just don't want to deal with the possibly of bricking the device? Join the club. This new hardware-based jailbreaking device promises to make the transition easy.
Called the iDongle, it boasts the ability to jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch running OS 3.1.2. Users simply plug the device into the dock connector. No computer connection is needed. It can even boot your current jailbroken device (tethered boot) if it's stuck in "recovery mode."
The drawback to the iDongle is that there's a limited supply. "For now, I only have a dozen of (working) prototype," said the iDongle's creator. "I need to raise some minimal funds to start manufacturing them in quantities, to lower the price as much as possible for the community."
While the idea is great, the developer may eventually suffer a legal wrath from Apple similar to the lawsuit raged by Nintendo in its fight against R4 mod chip piracy. Nintendo eventually won its battle, collecting over half a million dollars from an Australian company that distributed the Nintendo DS mod chip.
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if you want to root an iphone, get an android instead.
And a law suit in 3, 2, 1.............
"if you want to root an iphone, get an android instead."
This doesn't make any sense.
Anyone else think the name sounds a bit suggestive? Surely they could have come up with a better name.
if you want to root an iphone, get an android instead.
Never a fan of the iPhone...but def one for the Android!
Does Apple get to sue twice, once for the device and second for the name? Since they think anything with an 'i' in the name beginning of the name is trademarked to them. They should register 'iLawsuit'
heh, iDongle
Anyone else think the name sounds a bit suggestive? Surely they could have come up with a better name.
Apple is releasing the Ipad here in a month or so.
Yep, Apple will sue and win only because the dock connector is proprietary. Get the iDong while you can, people!
The saddest part is that you actually have to jailbreak a device that you bought.
The saddest part is... Aw he beat me to it
Anyone else think the name sounds a bit suggestive? Surely they could have come up with a better name.
Like the iWanker? Oh, wait... that's you.
Well, Isaac Asimov, wrote a book titled iRobot. Maybe people victimized by ilawsuits can use this as a defense.
@ Abrahm and hollowtek:
You guys are absolutely correct. People are such products these days. It's like: In an effort to be as individualistic as everybody else everybody is turning into an identical copy of a mindless money cow for businesses that spend more on advertising than on R&D.
Make no mistake. Kudos to apple for bringing the first fully touchscreen phone device to the market. It was about time! And they made a lot of cash with it, but the iPhone is hardly the best deal out there today.
And i'm sorry for those people who forked out the big money to buy an iPhone and would now like to have a more flexible device, but Apple is just too staunch to let this go on for long. Especially if they just bought it.