Before you root your Android phone, it's important to be aware of the consequences for your device's software, security, and warranty. Below, we've listed the advantages and disadvantages of rooting.

You can unlock your phone's potential when you root Android and get access to all it can do. But do you even need that much power?

HIGHLIGHTS Always wanted to jailbreak/root your iPhone or your Android, Windows Phone handsets? We show you the safest ways to do that.

But now you can now jailbreak a device with an Android phone too, as first spotted by redditor /u/stblr and reported by XDA.

Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile’s G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get around restrictions created by the phone’s ...

Hackers have found a way to get root access to a G1 Android mobile phone.

You need to jailbreak the handset every time you reboot it, though that's why doing it with an Android handset might come in handy.