Palm Pre Hacked to Work on Verizon
July 10, 2009
Filed Under: in Analysis, Mobile, News, Palm Pre, Video
Author: Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Our collectively favorite mobile platform here at SiliconANGLE has now been hacked to work on the Verizon mobile, as shown by PreCentral’s forum member, ‘cleanser’.
Much like other hacks I’ve seen (like the iPhone working on the MetroPCS network), data transfer is yet to work. Unlike Metro, Verizon has a data network that should be compatible with the Pre, so it looks like it’s a matter of time before that aspect of it is cracked:
Apparently webOS is checking to see if the device is provisioned or not before allowing a data session to take place. So my next step would be to somehow bypass this provisioning check.
Definitely interesting and points to me two things – the strength of the developer (and hacker) community already around the Pre as a device, and the market desire to get this device available to as many folks as possible.
[...] Palm Pre Hacked to Work on Verizon was a title of an article here on Silicon Angle, and it is just more evidence of how fast this fan base is growing. As Mark pointed out, the data portion isn’t working quite yet, but the hacker expected to have that working soon. [...]