Truly Free phones?

[Joe]

One could make the same arguments for a rooted G1 too. Once you have
root, you can do whatever you want. I still wouldn't consider either
option truly open though.

-Joe

Stephen wrote:
> 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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