Palm Pre impersonating Apple iPhone

Information about the Palm Pre hack was confirmed. This device really impersonates the Apple iPhone in “Media Sync” mode, which allows it to connect to iTunes. This is a real hack, built into the firmware by the developers themselves, to get compatibility with iTunes. The device now works quite normally with iTunes 8.2, which came out on Monday. That is, Apple did not block the Palm Pre in this version.

Here is the identification of the phone in “Media Sync” mode.


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Under habrakat - identification of the device in the “USB Drive” mode, where it behaves normally, this is for comparison.

It remains unclear whether Apple can block access technically and legally. Most likely, maybe, just did not have time to do this in the latest release of iTunes.



via nanocr.eu