The first thing you’ll notice about this homescreen (if you’ve got an eye for these things) is that my iPhone is jailbroken. Frankly, I don’t know how anyone uses a non-jailbroken iPhone, but maybe I’m just weird.

So a couple of things to start with—I have an app called Backgrounder running here. You can see on Phone, Mail, and Safari they’ve got those little black discs—that means they’re running in the background. I also use an application called Kirikae as a task switcher and manager, which is accessible via a long press on my home button. Incredibly helpful. A few more jailbroken items: my Weather icon actually changes its image and temp to show the current weather conditions (thanks WeatherIcon!), and it also shows the temperature wherever I am on the phone up in the status bar.

So onto the apps. Clearly a lot of Apple’s native applications are present here—and for good reason. I do wish there was a native Gmail client on this phone, because I regularly struggle with Apple’s ideas about how mail management should be done.

As far as third party apps go, up top I’ve got CityTransit, an NYC subway app. I’ve lived here for about 8 years, but I’m still regularly confused as to which train to take—this is seriously a lifesaver for me. Of course the Engadget app is present, as it’s obviously the best application ever created for any mobile platform in the history of mobile platforms. Air Mouse is killer—I use it to navigate my HTPC. It’s definitely one of those applications that kind of blows your mind the first time you use it. You think, “How did I live without this?” I know how—I had a huge IR keyboard I used!

Shazam is a no-brainer. I hate not knowing what a song is. But still, it’s not nearly as knowledgeable is it needs to be. More often then not it doesn’t know the track I’m hearing, but it’s nice if you want to know what that song on Z100 is. Wikipanion is another killer app for me. Anything that lets me get an answer to a question faster is great, and its formatting and handling of Wikipedia’s content is superb.

Finally we’ve got Tweetie and Colloquy. Tweetie is my fallback Twitter app, though I have a jailbroken app called qTweeter which is accessible from anywhere on the phone by swiping downward from the status bar as well. I use both, but you can’t match qTweeter’s convenience. Colloquy is an IRC client I use to stay connected with Team Engadget when I’m out (or on my couch)—it’s actually best when combined with Backgrounder, so I can get other work done while a conversation is going on.

Oh, double tapping the home button brings up my starred contacts. Huzzah!