Truly Free phones?

[Stephen]

only issue i have with this is the iphone annoys me. :-)

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> Just thought I would mention the Apple IPhone. It is far from free or
> open, out of the box, but once "jailbroken", they are unlocked and you
> can install any apps you want, including ones that you write yourself.
> There is also a free online course from Standford University that is
> teaching iphone application programming using the free SDK. Again, all
> of this only applies if you "jailbreak" the phone, which voids your
> warranty (although you can easily restore it back to normal in the case
> that you had to return it for some reason). My Coworker has a jailbroken
> iphone, and he can do *anything* with it, including SSH into it, ssh out
> of it, run and install any apps, use it on any carrier, etc. Of course
> making it do any of this cool stuff is totally unsupported, but thats
> the fun of hacking right? :)
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Stephen