Homebrew apps coming officially to WP7... at some point

2 December, 2010

The team standing behind the ChevronWP7 jailbreak tool for WP7 announced that after a meeting with Microsoft they decided to discontinue the unlocking tool effective immediately.

Windows Phone 7 homebrew

In return Brandon Watson, the Windows Phone 7 Director of Developer Experience, agreed to "open the Windows Phone 7 platform for broader access to developers and users". In other words, it's only a matter of time for home made apps to come to the Windows Phone 7 (as opposed to apps delivered via the Marketplace).

That sure sounds exciting but we won't believe it until we see it. Until that happens we'll miss the ChevronWP7 jailbreak tool.

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Reader comments

  • Ghost
  • 05 Dec 2010
  • 3ab

"Android is the best, a completely open OS" Only in your dreams.....

  • Anonymous
  • 04 Dec 2010
  • Tr8

Android is the best, a completely open OS, and we don't have the software/hardware issues that linux on the PC has, lol I'm posting this from a Desire HD ROM on my HD2.

  • anon
  • 04 Dec 2010
  • fjW

A more clever move by Microsoft should have been to buy this from Chevron or let them develop it further and put it on marketplace. This way development of Phone 7 will be much faster.

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