I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.
Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.
I have a Jailbroken iPhone with SBSettings and the Rotation switch.
First I find no problems with the rotation, I have a 1g iphone for more than a year now, and the only problem I had with rotation was when I was laying, with that SBsettings switch, it's solved.
Second, I agree that SBsettings is the most useful iPhone App and Apple should really look into its features and make them builtin.
You're right, it's almost enough to push one into jailbreaking. But I think I'd prefer to run a supported configuration. Computers shouldn't be unnecessarily exciting.
Jailbreaking made my iPhone twice as useful. I wouldn't be as enthousiastic about it as I am now if I wasn't able to install a lot of useful software that's only available outside of the Appstore.
I buy most of my software in the Appstore but I've also paid for software on Cydia.
Lookup SBSettings (has a button for quickly toggling WiFi on and off, awesome for battery life and my initial reason to jailbreak), RotationInhibitor, Lock Calendar and iDitDahText (brilliant!).
Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...