ChevronWP7, Microsoft team on new Windows Phone unlock tool
updated 12:25 pm EDT, Sat June 18, 2011
ChevronWP7 talks new Windows Phone unlock tool
The ChevronWP7 team surfaced again on Friday with news of its long promised, officially sanctioned Windows Phone 7 unlock tool in ChevronWP7 Labs. Its solution will give developers and hobbyists a way to run apps without having to sign up for and publish to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Both they and Microsoft's Senior Product Manager Cliff Simpkins saw it as a way of safely experimenting without either breaking Marketplace rules or running afoul of another developer.
The new version will require a PayPal fee to the ChevronWP7 team, but mostly to cover development costs.
ChevronWP7 arrived just weeks after Windows Phone 7 arrived in the US as a reaction to the limitations on what apps were available on the new platform. Microsoft cracked down and demanded it stop, but it decided soon after to collaborate with the team of Windows enthusiasts to make an approved solution in return for taking down the original copy. The bridge is partly a necessity since the $99 fee normally has to be paid whether or not an app is available in Microsoft's store. [via WinRumors]
