Celebrity Nerds: Ashton Kutcher jailbreaks his iPhone, fends off paps
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 13th 2009 4:34AM
posted Feb 13th 2009 4:34AM
Celebrity Nerds confirms what you always knew, deep in your heart of hearts: that stars are nerds like us. Send in your own confirmations of this fact right here.
Ashton's just this guy, you know? He and his salt-of-the-earth wife Demi like to dodge the paparazzi at the airport, and on occasion he'll take that painstakingly jailbroken iPhone 3G of his and turn the tables on their stalkers -- he even upped the video to Qik, just in case you were wondering what other people just like you get up to in their free time.
Read - TMZ's flattering coverage of Ashton and fam
Read - Ashton's Qik video of the incident
Read - TMZ's flattering coverage of Ashton and fam
Read - Ashton's Qik video of the incident
eh?
Shiiiiiiit... its like 2-3fr per second! you guys can survive with that cellphone?
Well, 15, actually, and yes, still in love with it after nearly 2 years! No plans to change it for higher frame rate, thank you!
the phone, not Ashton :D
This is not 15fps, sorry. Watch it again... Maybe its the conversion to flash video??
Still 15fps is quite sad... most cellphone have SD 29.97fps now. (at least here in Jp)
Looks fine to me, just seems like Ashton forgot his breakfast and now he has the shakes. That video looks better than my Samsung slider, although I'm hoping Apple will actually bring video support to the iPhone (that was via a hack), along with MMS and maybe even C&P.
If you want a good laugh, this was on the QuickPwn boards, just a few days ago:
"ashton says:
January 27, 2009 at 5:03 pm
i have the new 2.2.1 software. but when i plug it in the quickpwn says the firmware doesnt support it. what do i do?"
So?
I ♥ Ashton Kutcher.
what's with people and eye pictures?
It's "deep" and "meaningful"...I guess.
I actually have a third eye tattoo. Not on my forhead though :)
This is news because...???
ummm, Because it's new and has to do with technology.
Engadget is a technology "blogging" site, it isn't CNN, so news like this are actually kind of a fresh breath of air every once in a while.
No?
That was a valiant effort in trying to cover for Engadget's unbridled enthusiasm for all things Apple.
Nice try...
NO
It is news because he used an iPhone.
please hamidxa, u r a troll. i saw u befrore.
For a celebrity to jail break a phone or pirate movies is the lowest of low. For a celebrity to steal in this sort of manner just encourages people to pirate movies and software. Demeaning the people who spent alot of time and effort into writing these. Not to mention the fact that thier large pay cheques are funded by these products.
Ha ha, since when is jailbreaking stealing? you might want to give it a go or do some research before you start posting stupid comments
I'm confused what did he steal? What did he pirate?
Wait. What? You do know what jailbreaking actually is don't you? And that it doesn't involve stealing?
pjswindale, buddy, if you jailbreak your phone you lose support, I think this is fair for both sides!
No kittens killed or movies stolen during this process.
Yeah, but should Ashton Kutcher STILL be considered a celebrity? His only recent claim to fame is a bunch of lousy commercials for Nikon. He seems to be on his way out . . .
engadget can finally sleep at night
Kutcher and Demi are both regular Twiiterers, posting pics and vid's of their experiences and travels. @aplusk and @mrskutcher.
Control the story and limit the power of the paps by getting it out yourself.
Well, I'm sure they're mobbed by rude paparazzi a lot, but that was just a terrible example. The guy calls out "Hey, how's it going" "Take care of yourself, have a good one" etc, barely harrassment. Good old cycorder, or maybe he uses the more unreliable "Video recorder for iPhone 3G". Now, wtf am I commenting on celebrity news on engadget?
He uses Qik actually.
So his wife being called a "crazy little bitch" isn't harassment? K.
He is a Douche.
yeah. My douche alarm always goes off when I see him. Those Nikon commercials make my teeth itch.
x2, nobody cares about you or your elderly plastic wife
Kutcher's a mental midget.
Wow, the article photo makes him look a lot like Edge from wwe.
Where's your Nikon NOW asshole?
You paparazzi just got Punk'd!
Sorry :P
ashton is a dolt, and engadget imperils their techno-glitz by covering that fact that even he knows how to take a video with a cellphone...wow...
Somebody modded it for him. That guy can't tell s#it from shoe polish!
Another douche poster boy for all the apple fanbois out there. I guess Justin Long wasn't enough of a failed Hollywood actor for you all to grasp to.
what the hell is ashton kutcher?
what = who...
I think that I am starting to dislike engadget. I am really sick of useless Apple-based articles. I suspect that Apple actually pays all of the engadget mac-drones to keep this site up.
oh, and Ashton is a loser
The fact that this guy (who is famous? All i know is he was the stupid guy in that 70s show) had to jailbreak his iphone because the software that comes with it doesn't have, what we consider, standard features in a phone says (to me at least) that this article is actually bad publicity for Apple.
Whoa, buddy. Calm down. You can stop reading at any time.
please be our guests and leave. This site doesnt need anymore people who look for apple bias in every post and shout it out in the comments. This isnt so much about apple, but about a celebrity going against apple and jailbreaking his iphone. Ok dude. Do you get that? Nah Didnt think so. to put it nicely just leave.
At least apple doesn't have the Zune guy. Could you stop pissing and moaning now?
Anyone who wears that hat and glasses is a doucherag.
am i the only on who notices the wheres waldo look going on?
I thought the same thing!
So how exactly does a jailbroken iPhone fend off paparazzi?
How about a X celebrity has a RAZR V3 post? Just about as relevant as this :)
it seems celebrities are hit by the recession too thats why he's taking picture with a 2.0 mp cameraphone lol
'tis not a picture my friend
It's a moving picture - they're groovy, and not usually possible from Apple's crippled-iphone
Awesomes! hhgttg, soo appropriate.. sad no one else got it....
He is a real hoopy frood. Worst dressed sentient being in the galaxy.
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paps = scum. the only thing worse is a pedifile, only by a little.