iPod Touch: State of the Jailbreak as of 09/24/2007

wow there are to many ipods on the market right now. if you ask me the touch screen is just another thing that can fail or malfunction

I ordered a 16GB iPod Touch in the hopes tht I could use it as a weak PDA, i.e. enter address info, modify my iCal, maybe in the future look at and modify spreadsheets, etc. I know that you can enter address info, but why disable the iCal functions for writing? Weird and sadistic. I may return mine too when it gets here. Is it so wrong for me to want something small and portable that will do some of the "important" things? I don't have coverage nor want to switch now to use the iPhone and I don't want to open my powerbook everytime I want to check my calendar or addresses!

Sharkus, that will make one more refurbished iPod Touch buyer all the more pleased.

I, for one, will be returning my 16G IPOD Touch if I cannot install native apps on it within the next 90 days (i.e. the max return policy at Costco). I'm already a bit tempted to return it due to the poor battery life, high cost per mb, lack of disk mode, and slow transfer rate...

If I wanted "just" a MP3 player I would have purchased a IPOD Classic for $150 less.

And in the end, all is futile.. You cannot stop the Hackers, evar.. :)

Um...so WHY is Apple making it so hard to break into (not out of*) the Touch? Maybe because the Touch is a precursor to a tablet/Newton-esque (ugh, made up words)/whatever you want to call it inpocket device? I'm sure they are working on porting all of the abilities that you are struggling to introduce to the iPod Touch, and will release their hardware soon, fully backed by updates and exciting keynotes. I love my iBook G4 and am well on my way to saving the dough for a new Macbook Pro and I want an iPhone more than I want to achieve Tantric balance, but please, think of the Vulcans! What would Spock do? Apple knows what you want. They will give you what you want. When they have taken you to your breaking point, they will give you what you want.

Be still, this is embarrassing.

*you're not freeing the iPod, you're breaking into a system.

Edgan: decrypting the firmware is pointless, the iPhone still won't load any of your own code. they need to find an overflow exploit or the key for signing the code.

Take the same approach PSP modders did, exploit buffer overflows in the libraries apple is using.

Edgan I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe someone post that idea on Hackint0sh?

Why aren't they ripping iTunes limb from limb for the key to unencrypt the firmware files? I looked over the files and found they all seemed to be encrypted.