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- verb Simple past of
jailbreak .
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Examples
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James Billington, Librarian of Congress, said phone owners who "jailbroke" their handsets would "not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Still pondering. howie hey ... let me know when the app store gets an application that i havent had on my iphone since i jailbroke it like a year ago. oh, and i have an IM client that runs in the background and a great ssh client (and server). yeah, i said it. can i get a what what? tie
iPhone App Store is up! Apps galore and a couple thoughts. : #comments 2008
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In the hopes that the 2.1 software update would make it behave, I un-jailbroke my iPhone (re-jailed it?), so I have not tried iPhone Modem myself, but commenters at Gizmodo confirm it does work.
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Like many Touch (I call it the iTouch) users, I “jailbroke” mine, enabling me to load many of the small programs supplied standard on the iPhone, but not the Touch.
Can the Touch Revive Apple’s iPod Sales? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In the hopes that the 2.1 software update would make it behave, I un-jailbroke my iPhone (re-jailed it?), so I have not tried iPhone Modem myself, but commenters at Gizmodo confirm it does work.
iPhone Modem Tethers Jailbroken iPhones | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Designer Vijay (of two-faced Mac-like Windows desktop fame) jailbroke his iPhone and loaded it up with apps.
Five Screens Of Jailbroken iPhone Apps | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Two years ago, he received an iPod touch for his bar mitzvah and says he jailbroke the device in an evening.
How I Spent My Summer: Hacking Into iPhones With Friends 2009
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It turns out that within a day of the release, it was jailbroken as well, so i upgraded, jailbroke, and now i am lovin life.
doggdot.us 2008
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I already jailbroke my iPhone 3g using a prepwned file done by the mac version, and then just applied it through iTunes.
Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 on Windows with Winpwn | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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This weekend I re-jailbroke my iPhone running the 2.0.1 software using PwnageTool.
iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Apps You Can’t Find in the iTunes Store | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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