iPhone-Im a newbie-Advice

[ratbag69]

Hi,

I just got an iphone on a contract, I have never had one before.

Couple of things I have noticed:

#The camera-it seems rubbish unless im missing something. No zoom? no flash?

#Background (not wallpaper)-Cant I change this?

Sure there will be other things I will notice as I get used to it.

[juls1585]

no flash or zoom unless you purchase apps. flash for free is a good app to lighten up pics and its in the apple app store.

there is no way to change the background unless you jailbreak your phone

[Mickeylittle]

Yeah ratbag you will probably run in 5-6 things that you swear should work but Apple is trying to give them to us 1 update at a time when they make a new phone. It's their way of ending up with 5-6 iphones! So jailbreaking, which is easy gets most of the 5-6 items for you today!

[ratbag69]

Jailbreakinf? Is that like chipping a games console? Or do u mean so I can put a pay as u go sim in it?

[Mickeylittle]

jailbreaking allows you to download apps that do some of the things you wanna do but can't on the stock phone. It allows me to multitask, change my background, themes, put info such as weather and calendar events on my lockscreen, etc...

[ratbag69]

Thanks.

But if i have read things right everytime they do an update (which itunes prompts me to download) it will stop my phone from working until they come up with a new jail break is that correct?

If it is then just to change the background and get a few apps its not worth it is it.

[dMAXIMOb]

You should be able to Jailbreak after you update. You will find that you will be so much more free after you jailbreak.
This site has most of the current apps on Cydia(Jailbroken App Store) if you want to take a peek before JBing:
http://modmyi.com/cydia/search.php
Also, you might want to search the Jailbreak specific forums in here, and the Dev Team Blog site for more info.

[Cjvdh]

Welcome my friend.

[BrownGem]

Jailbreaks after new updates don't take very long to come out. You don't have to upgrade if you don't want what is in the new firmware. There is a lot of functionality to be added with a jailbreak but if your interest is only in a background and a flash then it probably isn't for you. There are multitudes of camera apps in the iTunes store than can modify pictures so you could probably find some app that will lighten a dark pic.

[iNinja]

Welcome to the forums, and please dont take this the wrong way, but did you do any research into the iPhone at all before you bought it?