What are the benefits to jailbreak an ipod touch second gen?

I still haven’t jailbroken mine yet, but I heard you can get free games and stuff that you normally have to buy.
I’ve also heard it was easy to do.
Damn I need that upgrade!

once its jailbroken you can install software on it via other methods than the appstore.

Remember, this voids your warranty!

Well, it’s not hard to do. You can do things like download movies and tv shows straight from the Internet (from a filesharing website so the legality is questionable). You can also download apps for free that you would normally pay for (also a little iffy on the legality). You can customize everything, like safari, music, your home screen, you can even get a video as your wallpaper! A lot more options and little tweaks that you can install also. That’s all, I had mine jailbroken for a while, recently undid it to get the 3.0 software, I’m wondering if I should do it again though…

As I stated in another thread:

I love my jailbroken iPod. Mines a first gen, the boyfriends is a second gen.

I love what Cydia has to offer. You can get themes, all different kinds of stuff to customize, and there’s tons of sources so you can find even more stuff.

You can download any app for free so long as it’s there (which mostly all of them are, give or take some new apps) from the installulos app. It’s super easy, and usually super fast, depending on your internet speed.

You can also still download the free apps from the app store, and the regular apps that cost money. A lot of people usually download whatever app they want, free from installulos, and if they like it, they’ll buy it from the app store. I don’t, does that make me a douche?

Any other questions, let me know!

even if you dont want to do illegal stuff winterboard is great
i installed inav and it is so awesome