Celebrity Nerds: Ashton Kutcher jailbreaks his iPhone, fends off paps

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

[MeII @ Feb 13th 2009 4:41AM]

eh?

[Boards of Canada @ Feb 13th 2009 5:18AM]

Shiiiiiiit... its like 2-3fr per second! you guys can survive with that cellphone?

[Marko @ Feb 13th 2009 5:39AM]

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!

[Marko @ Feb 13th 2009 5:40AM]

the phone, not Ashton :D

[Boards of Canada @ Feb 13th 2009 8:42AM]

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)

[who? @ Feb 13th 2009 10:09AM]

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.

[cragbit @ Feb 13th 2009 8:31PM]

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?"

[TRLK @ Feb 13th 2009 4:46AM]

So?

[Saad Rabia @ Feb 13th 2009 4:46AM]

I ♥ Ashton Kutcher.

[anus1220 @ Feb 13th 2009 7:05AM]

what's with people and eye pictures?

[Adam @ Feb 13th 2009 8:29AM]

It's "deep" and "meaningful"...I guess.

[Levi @ Feb 13th 2009 9:32AM]

I actually have a third eye tattoo. Not on my forhead though :)

[Hamidxa @ Feb 13th 2009 4:50AM]

This is news because...???

[Saad Rabia @ Feb 13th 2009 4:58AM]

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?

[Hamidxa @ Feb 13th 2009 5:08AM]

That was a valiant effort in trying to cover for Engadget's unbridled enthusiasm for all things Apple.

Nice try...

[bombgigitty @ Feb 13th 2009 8:24AM]

NO

[Giroro @ Feb 13th 2009 11:29AM]

It is news because he used an iPhone.

[chickenator @ Feb 13th 2009 4:04PM]

please hamidxa, u r a troll. i saw u befrore.

[pjswindale @ Feb 13th 2009 4:54AM]

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.

[Ron @ Feb 13th 2009 5:04AM]

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

[BuddyBoy @ Feb 13th 2009 5:02AM]

I'm confused what did he steal? What did he pirate?

[Nicholas Smith @ Feb 13th 2009 5:03AM]

Wait. What? You do know what jailbreaking actually is don't you? And that it doesn't involve stealing?

[Saad Rabia @ Feb 13th 2009 5:05AM]

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.

[F @ Feb 13th 2009 8:23AM]

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 . . .

[john @ Feb 13th 2009 4:56AM]

engadget can finally sleep at night

[danpat @ Feb 13th 2009 5:04AM]

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.

[Macca @ Feb 13th 2009 5:41AM]

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?

[Chaz @ Feb 13th 2009 6:54AM]

He uses Qik actually.

[ijyt @ Feb 13th 2009 3:01PM]

So his wife being called a "crazy little bitch" isn't harassment? K.

[GeekGirl @ Feb 13th 2009 5:47AM]

He is a Douche.

[CraigJ @ Feb 13th 2009 10:49AM]

yeah. My douche alarm always goes off when I see him. Those Nikon commercials make my teeth itch.

[Dan @ Feb 13th 2009 3:50PM]

x2, nobody cares about you or your elderly plastic wife

[Michael @ Feb 13th 2009 5:58AM]

Kutcher's a mental midget.

[Down @ Feb 13th 2009 6:11AM]

Wow, the article photo makes him look a lot like Edge from wwe.

[strider_mt2k @ Feb 13th 2009 6:35AM]

Where's your Nikon NOW asshole?

[Mobius_1 @ Feb 13th 2009 6:50AM]

You paparazzi just got Punk'd!

Sorry :P

[carlwf @ Feb 13th 2009 7:55AM]

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...

[bombgigitty @ Feb 13th 2009 8:28AM]

Somebody modded it for him. That guy can't tell s#it from shoe polish!

[Agent .25i @ Feb 13th 2009 8:38AM]

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.

[MachineGoesPing @ Mar 22nd 2009 3:36AM]

what the hell is ashton kutcher?

[machine goes ping @ Feb 13th 2009 9:11AM]

what = who...

[Ineed911 @ Feb 13th 2009 9:13AM]

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

[iamOG @ Feb 13th 2009 9:41AM]

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.

[Brian @ Feb 13th 2009 9:49AM]

Whoa, buddy. Calm down. You can stop reading at any time.

[MIA @ Feb 13th 2009 10:26AM]

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.

[Brian @ Feb 13th 2009 9:51AM]

At least apple doesn't have the Zune guy. Could you stop pissing and moaning now?

[Erick @ Feb 13th 2009 9:59AM]

Anyone who wears that hat and glasses is a doucherag.

[Jay O @ Feb 13th 2009 10:12AM]

am i the only on who notices the wheres waldo look going on?

[Juan @ Feb 15th 2009 4:51PM]

I thought the same thing!

[Joe @ Feb 13th 2009 10:43AM]

So how exactly does a jailbroken iPhone fend off paparazzi?