Hacked, rooted and jailbroken – different approaches to accessibility Bruce Darby Technology Advisor University of Edinburgh
Don’t do it! Voids warranty Can break your phone Blah blah etc. etc.
Rooting and Jailbreaking What does ‘rooting’ your phone mean? What is Jailbreaking?
Rooting Android phones. Allows full access and control of the operating system.
How to root Google ‘root and your handset name’. What worked for me might not work for you. Root!
Install custom operating system Nandroid back up Titanium backup Rom Manager Cyanogenmod 7
Advantages of rooting Make back ups. Customise. Partition SD card Early updates. Learn a lot.
Jailbreaking Apple iPhone Allows installation of Cydia. Allows access and control of operating system.
How to Jailbreak Download and update iPhone to (need access to this file later) Download redsn0w from Dev-team blog at Funny button pressing combination. Jailbreak!
Advantages of jailbreaking Cydia alternative app store. Tweaks and customisations. Early updates. Learn a lot. Baba Buufey.
Advantages of jailbreaking Display Recorder and Cydia. Activator – Evernote MobileNotifier FastSnap - Camera LockInfo – , calendar, favourites. MissedReminder – LED flash. Xpandr - !gm
iOS 5 Copy Cat! Importance for the future of development and innovation.
If this then that Iftt.com
What does this mean for accessibility? Not a lot. No iHoverPad
Back to 2007 New phones Mobile computing
Custom or specialist Customise an existing product. Create a specialist product.
3 rd Option Build accessible features in. Usability rather than accessibility.
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Device use Alivecor – allows you to take a personal electrocardiograph. Not released yet.
Interesting stuff project – control your robot with your phone. Low cost, power, bandwidth. Onavo – data compressor. Apple allowing third party widgets in iOS 5