Microsoft Offers a Geohot a Windows Phone 7 Handset

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Posted January 18, 2011 at 9:05pm by iClarified

Microsoft is offering Geohot a free WP7 handset after he suggested their methods of dealing with hackers were a lot better than Sony's.

Linking to an Engadget article on the Windows Phone 7 jailbreak, Geohot writes, "perhaps a more appropriate way to deal with jailbreakers. I'm going out to buy a Windows 7 phone"

It seems Microsoft got wind of his statement and tweeted...

#geohot if you want to build cool stuff on #wp7, send me email and the team will give you a phone - let dev creativity flourish #wp7dev

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Solution - January 19, 2011 at 4:49pm

another kid found a good tutorial on how to homebrew the ps3 and became celebrity lolllllll

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Virtual-Oz - January 19, 2011 at 2:30pm

sounds fishy - do not accept the phone geohot! Or accept it and then exchange it with another phone...

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Steve Anderson - January 19, 2011 at 8:44am

What use a wp7 phone in prison the thief

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Thatcher - January 19, 2011 at 3:45am

To all you people saying "Geohot doesn't have a twitter account" This had nothing to do with a Geohot twitter account.....Geohot put the comment on his website geohot.com and said: "perhaps a more appropriate way to deal with jailbreakers I'm going out to buy a Windows 7 phone" MS then added #Geohot to the comment.....And if you know anything about twitter thats a trend comment. If it were to his account it would have been @geohot :-P

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Thatcher - January 19, 2011 at 3:00pm

Well if Yorkshire in the UK is USA.....yes you are 100% correct. That sounds like Sarcasm to me. Funny how you got that assumption so accurate without knowing any fact.

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Are you kidding? - January 19, 2011 at 2:41am

As stated before, Geohot has no twitter account! Even if he did, what a insult being given a windows mobile! I'd rather be sent to jail than touch a windows phone

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Eddie - January 20, 2011 at 7:27am

looooooooooool

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MS-666 - January 19, 2011 at 12:10am

nice from MS :) sony should fired all security experts they have, and give GeoHot a PS4 to build its security :) instead of all that pathetic excuses when they have FAIL big time. All the best to GeoHot :)

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iceberg - January 18, 2011 at 10:46pm

One problem- the real Geohot doesn't have a twitter account and swears the @Geohot account isn't him. http://www.ihackintosh.com/2010/07/geohot-closes-twitter-account-and-blog/

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Victor - January 18, 2011 at 11:31pm

but that's not a reply to @geohot, that's just a hashtag, so they're just letting him know

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Brian - January 18, 2011 at 9:42pm

If MS really give geohotz phone does not surprise me. MS want to share market where apple currently owned this way will make win phone much more better in future

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