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20-something firmware magician GeoHot (George Hotz) has already been sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, and caused a major stir in the iPhone dev community when he released limera1n. So what next for the ambitious young hacker? How about taking a stab at Windows Phone 7?The invitation has been handed out, with WP7 lead Brandon Watson offering to ship Hotz a device so that he can give it a go. Microsoft, of course, has said that it fully supports "official homebrew" development for WP7 and met recently with the Chevron WP7 team to discuss community and development-related issues.
The exploit used by Chevron WP7 is due to be patched in the January update for Windows Phone 7, so GeoHot will need to look elsewhere. Still, he's done it twice before, so we wouldn't be at all surprised if he can do it again.
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Subscribe to commentsChrisSskJan 21st 2011 7:58AM
A bit more detail on this.
GeoHot updated his site http://geohot.com/ with news about his legal troubles and ended the update with:
"perhaps a more appropriate way to deal with jailbreakers
I'm going out to buy a Windows 7 phone"
more appropriate being a link to http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/18/visualized-the-glamorous-lifestyles-of-wp7-jailbreakers/ about how Microsoft is trying to work together with jailbreakers
Brandon Watson saw that and send the twit
crashanimationsJan 21st 2011 8:01AM
"official homebrew" = apps.
Duh.