Jailbreak Your iPhone

In the past jailbreaking was almost a necessity to get the functionality you wanted out of your iPhone, but with a rapidly maturing operating system with most of the features people want it's not as much of a concern as it used to be. That said, you don't want to discount the jailbreaking process. The awesome things you can do may not be obvious anymore, but they're still awesome. The jailbreaking process is easier than ever and the community of developers and users is wonderfully large. The primary reason to jailbreak nowadays is that if you have a problem, in a day or two someone will have developed a solution. Take Sparrow for example. It's a phenomenal mail client for the iPhone, but because of Apple's restrictions it can't safely offer push notifications for new messages. This bothered some people, in within a day Sparrow Push was developed to provide that functionality. On top of that there are plenty of great apps and notification center tweaks that are a good place to start if you're new to jailbreaking. It may not be the necessity it once was, but it's now awesome for several new reasons.