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	solca	2009-02-02 , 22:21
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Originally Posted by Stskeeps

And to just illustrate what I meant by open vs closed device, - You need a developer key (and special T-Mobile G1!) to replace firmware on a G1. On a tablet, you have full root access and you can run NITdroid, Mer, Gentoo, Debian, etc. Without having to jailbreak or 'telnetd' your device.

Sorry in insisting on this open discussion, but in reality both are closed locked devices, just that the G1 have it's lock on the bootloader (easy to circumvent) and the Nokia tablets have it's lock on _required_ system software (_very_hard_ to reverse engineer).

Knowing what I'm talking about, ten years from now everybody would benefit from updated open source drivers, updated kernels and documentation for the G1/ADP1; but for the tablets... you simply can't, you will always be stuck with the historic 2.6.21 Nokia release.

My point is that you should not consider the current tablets as open, the next one probably...

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