Assuming they cant JB the 3.1 3Gs firmware.. and beyond..

[Amarq09]

I'm still on 3.0 : )

 

[redman042]

The only two advantages (for me personally) that I see about the iPhone over the Windows Mobile platform is the gaming graphics and Safari, although Opera for Windows Mobile does a good enough job for me.

I used to be a WinMo user and I will NEVER go back, jailbreak or no jailbreak. The iPhone is much more for me than just the two advantages you listed. The entire user experience is about 20 times better.

Yeah, my WinMo phone backgrounded any time I wanted it to, and I could customize it to my heart's delight, but then why did I ultimately strip it back to the bare OS and just a few 3rd party mods?? I'll tell you why. The phone got incredibly laggy and unstable as hell. I couldn't even answer calls half the time.

I think that's the point many people miss when they talk about going to WinMo, Android, or Blackberry so they can have the freedom to mod and background apps. From what I know and have heard, none of those phones do this very well. They get laggy, music gets stuttery, and the OS starts falling apart.

It's rather odd that the one phone "not designed to background apps" does it so much better than the others, once you jailbreak (especially the 3GS).

 

[crpercodani]

I don't know about bb but Android was perfectly fine for me, I mean if your trying to run 4 or 5 resource hogging apps then yes it will bog down but the same can be said for even the almighty iPhone. Winmo does indeed suck and hopefully they fix some stuff with 6.5, most likely the real big changes will come next year with winmo 7. I switch sims from my G1 and iPhone every couple weeks because both phones are great, the G1's ram/rom does indeed suck but the keyboard and screen are really nice plus the ROM developers like Cyanogen and JAC make some really great improvements. Overall if I had to choose I would take the iPhone but only if jailbroken, when the Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid comes out it might be a different story, a 3.7 capacitive screen, same processor as the 3GS, and well google it if you wanna know the rest.

Who cares about 3.1 jb though? 3.1 is laggy and seems to have tons of problems, I'll stay with 3.0 until a better FW comes.

 

[leons]

I once read what seemed to be informesd speculation on the development teams site that if the Iphone ever became un-jailbreakable, it would be likely that a hardware key/dongle/ROM from China would likely be developed that you could buy, plug into your Iphone, and jailbreak.

 

[TheHeadFL]

I once read what seemed to be informesd speculation on the development teams site that if the Iphone ever became un-jailbreakable, it would be likely that a hardware key/dongle/ROM from China would likely be developed that you could buy, plug into your Iphone, and jailbreak.

This refers to the fact that the 3GS is exploitable via the 24Kpwn exploit, similar to the iPod Touch 2G. The 24Kpwn is an exploit which uses a vulnerability in the boot rom, which is permanently in the phone. This gives them the ability to always release what is called a 'tethered' jailbreak, which you refer to here.

Most people would of course want there to be an untethered jailbreak, which implies continually finding holes in iBoot in each successive firmware release. This is required to give them the foot in the door and allow the other exploit to work. Otherwise iBoot will refuse to load the hacked firmware.

 

[hchavarria]

I used to be a WinMo user and I will NEVER go back, jailbreak or no jailbreak. The iPhone is much more for me than just the two advantages you listed. The entire user experience is about 20 times better.

Yeah, my WinMo phone backgrounded any time I wanted it to, and I could customize it to my heart's delight, but then why did I ultimately strip it back to the bare OS and just a few 3rd party mods?? I'll tell you why. The phone got incredibly laggy and unstable as hell. I couldn't even answer calls half the time.

I think that's the point many people miss when they talk about going to WinMo, Android, or Blackberry so they can have the freedom to mod and background apps. From what I know and have heard, none of those phones do this very well. They get laggy, music gets stuttery, and the OS starts falling apart.

It's rather odd that the one phone "not designed to background apps" does it so much better than the others, once you jailbreak (especially the 3GS).

There is a phone for everyone and as much as I like the iPhone I really liked and had a good experience with Winmo too. To me they both are great devices and you just have to find and meet your needs.