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Another Windows Phone 7 jailbreak is coming
ANOTHER JAILBREAK for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobile operating system will be out soon, according to Winrumours.
This jailbreak has been hatched by WP7 developer Julien Schapman, who will release a WP7 Device Manager that includes a new way to jailbreak the Vole's smartphone OS.
Schapman will release his Device Manager application after Microsoft's first WP7 update, we guess so the Vole can't kill it with that. Part of the reason for this is that the exploit is similar to that of the ChevronWP7 jailbreak in the way they both use a fake registration server.
The application will allow WP7 handset owners to manage their applications, explore devices, create device backups and add ringtones and sync favorites. Device Manager will also jailbreak WP7 and allow side-loading of applications.
Schapman told Winrumors that his method is more reliable than the ChevronWP7 hack.
Apparently he did this because he wanted to create homebrew apps for the community without having to pay a $99 subscription, which he regards as aberrant. The Vole normally charges $99 a year for the privilege of developing WP7 applications.
Schapman said that he doesn't want his software used for 'piracy' and he will work with Microsoft to stop this. Schapman has also said that he will remove the unlock feature if the Vole provides an officially approved free method of doing the same thing.
He said that unlocking is not the main feature of his WP7 Device Manager and he wants to disable it as soon as there is a way to use his app on any WP7 device. µ
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All of you haters and bashers are completely missing the point. It should be considered an honor and a privilege to develop apps for the LoseDoze Fone 7. Because with the Micr0$uck$ Operating System (O/S) you can install the internet on your phone and point and click and cut and paste and browse the web and do all of the things that are difficult if not IMPOSSIBLE to do with any other product.
I agree. Microsoft even went so far not to allow SD cards and mass storage ( you know in MS vision this enables piracy...). I don't know who in Microsoft had this idea of a closed OS , but whoever is shouldbe fired (I'm sure it was not an enginner...). As MS spend 500 Milions only in advertising, probably the whole OS failure will cost at least 1 bilion. I would say take this from the paycheck of the guy which came with the idea in the first place :)
you can market a mildly jailed product provided you target the idiots of the consumer world with an attractive and trendymarketing technique
but microshaft decided to make an alcatraz-specification jailed product and even the idiots wont buy it. thus app makers shun it and make products for other platforms.
microshaft may learn but it will be the hard way and it will cost a lot of money. but then, they dont have a history of learning from mistakes otherwise windows would be a memory!
Why would anyone bother getting locked into Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 jail in the first place?
This is the most closed and restrictive OS the world has ever seen. Microsoft even stops people from engaging in simple pleasures, such as loading a ringtone of choice, or obtaining an application of choice.
Windows Phone 7 apps are not selling. Most have less than ten downloads. Therefore, no app developer is going to pay Microsoft's fee for failure. Windows Phone 7 has already failed, just like Windows Mobile and Microsoft's Kin phones already failed.
Rather than lock yourself into Microsoft's jail, it's better to get a phone that is not closed in the first place, such as Android or MeeGo.