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Windows 7 Phone Gets Jailbreak Tool 159

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @12:41PM from the happens-to-all-of-us-eventually dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Developers have released a 'jailbreak' tool for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, allowing the handsets to run any application, not just those approved for distribution through Microsoft's Marketplace. Although reminiscent of jailbreak tools for the iPhone, this tool, called ChevronWP7, addresses a feature missing in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. It allows corporations to develop proprietary applications and install them on users' handsets without the need to first place the application on Marketplace, as is currently required by Microsoft."

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Not a jailbreak (Score:3, Informative)

by The MAZZTer ( 911996 ) writes: <(megazzt) (at) (gmail.com)> on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @12:45PM (#34390062) Homepage

According to this guy [withinwindows.com] it uses the same APIs as the Windows phone developer tools do.

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umm (Score:1, Informative)

by ProfessorKaos64 ( 1772382 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @04:12PM (#34393700)

It's Windows Phone 7, not "Windows 7 Phone"...you think slashdot would get that right.

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