Top iPhone Jailbreak Apps for Business Users
Jailbreaking your iPhone used to be reserved for hackers and techies who weren’t afraid to laugh in the face of authority. But now that the Library of Congress has ruled that jailbreaking is legal, you too can install third-party apps not offered by the Apple Store and modify your iPhone to do your bidding.
The iPhone already comes with a host of handy apps for business use, but why stop there? Here are the top iPhone jailbreak apps that every business user should try.
Improve E-mail and Voice mail
Voicemail Forwarder
Company: Okori Group
Price: $2.99
Voicemail Forwarder lets you send your voice mails as e-mail attachments with a simple tap of a button. The e-mail tells you who the voice mail is from, when it was received, and how long it is. Great for forwarding an important voice mail to the office or to a colleague.
Company: ModMyi.com
Price: $3
If you’ve ever been frustrated by the iPhone Mail app’s inability to view certain attachments or save them to your iPhone, you’ll appreciate this one. AttachmentSaver lets you download any mail attachment, regardless of whether it’s supported by Mail.app, and save it directly to your iPhone in a special folder. It’s recommended to install a file manager jailbreak, such as iFile, in order to access the attachments you download.
Manage and Navigate Files
Company: BigBoss
Price: $4
Now that you can download any file you want, you need an app that lets you quickly sort through files and view them with ease. With iFile, you can directly jump to pages in PDF files, zip and unzip compressed files, edit text files and property lists, and bookmark folders and files. The app even lets you upload and download from iFile’s built-in Web server.
Company: MeDevil
Price: $5.99
The iPhone does a lot of things other phones can’t, but for some reason Apple doesn’t let you transfer files from your iPhone to other Bluetooth devices like other phones do. Now you can fix that with iBlueNova (formerly iBluetooth), the first jailbreak to let you transfer files via Bluetooth. It also has a built-in file viewer so you can receive and view files as you please.
Facilitate Presentations
Company: BigBoss
Price: $1.99
Have a video presentation you need to play at a business meeting? The iPhone already comes with the ability to play videos on a TV, but you have to pay a pretty penny for the Apple-supported cable needed to play video out. With Resupported, you can use any unsupported AV cable or device to play video out, without modifying your system files. Resupported even works with many third-party applications, such as YouTube.
Boost Performance
Company: BigBoss
Price: $3.99
The use of applications such as FaceTime and Skype is restricted when your iPhone is on a mobile Internet connection like 3G or Edge. This jailbreaker tricks your applications into believing they’re on Wi-Fi, even when they’re not. This means you can make free calls using VoIP software like Skype, make and receive FaceTime calls over 3G, download files larger than 10 megabytes, and more.
Company: Intelliborn
Price: $19.99
Turn your iPhone into a 3G hot spot with MyWi, which lets you tether your iPhone for a flat fee of only $19.99 versus the $20 per month price AT&T charges. Don’t know what tethering is? Tethering is a technique used to turn your iPhone into a wireless modem to provide Internet access to a computer. Tethering is especially handy when you’re on the road and can’t find a hot spot to use your laptop.
Tether Me
Company: BigBoss
Price: $1.99
Unlike MyWi, which turns your iPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot, Tether Me allows your phone to use native tethering with Bluetooth or USB. The advantages of Tether Me over MyWi are that it is much cheaper and you don’t have to share your Internet connection with other devices.
Enhance Security
Company: Telesphoreo Tangelo
Price: $2.99
If you have sensitive company information on your iPhone, you should know that deleting a confidential e-mail or attachment doesn’t mean it’s permanently purged. This app protects your deleted data from being recovered by hackers or prying eyes, or in the event that your iPhone is stolen, by zeroing out free space where old files can still reside, all without deleting live files or erasing your content or settings.
