Homebrew Windows Phone unlocking service comes to a permanent end

Chevron WP7

Back in January nosotros reported that ChevronWP7 Labs, the officially-sanctioned "jailbreak" service for Windows Phone "homebrew", was coming to a halt. At the time, the reasons cited by and large revolved around the difficulties some users experienced in installing it and the post-obit tech-support needed to help them out. The project was put on indefinite hiatus with more tokens possibly existence bought in the future.

Nonetheless, today information technology'southward official: the experiment is over.

Within 120 days, those who unlocked their phones via the ChevronWP7 Labs service will have their phones re-locked. The good news is all users who bought a token are eligible for a 1-year Microsoft App Hub membership, a $99 value and allowing them to stay unlocked for 12 more months.

The jailbreak service is being permanently shut downwards for a few reasons, including those cited above just also considering many of those who did unlock their phones so that they could "sideload" apps for experimentation, never moved on to actually publishing whatever apps to the Windows Phone Market. That was i of the goals of the project -- to reduce the $99 barrier for devs who might non be able to afford the App Hub membership.

While ChevronWP7 Labs is gone, the ChevronWP7 team made upward of Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh will go along tinkering effectually:

"Fear not, we will continue to explore other ideas with Microsoft. All sides are nevertheless very interested in the hobbyist and homebrew programmer communities."

For more than information on the closure of the service and for those looking to upgrade to that App Hub membership, caput to the ChevronWP7 Labs site here.

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