Palm Pre Easily Jailbroken?
June 14, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cellphones
The claim that it’s easy to open up the Palm Pre to third-party software should attract some interest—or raise complaints about its lack of security.
Ah, but given how iPhones continue to chug along smoothly despite the breadth of its undeground software ecosystem, such complaints would be dubious at best. In any case, here’s what led Steven Troughton-Smith to claim ownership of “the first jailbroken Pre in existence.”:
On Tuesday, I decided to be adventurous. I was able to buy a Palm Pre from a local Sprint Wireless store without activation or a contract (apparently I hear it’s very hard to do? …read more
