Apple and Android operating systems are those known to be “rooted” or “jailbroken” which gives you further access to the OS than usual.  BlackBerry has never taken part in rooting of any kind really until now.  A mobile developer Chris Wade who is responsible for iEmu and other mobile hacks/roots claims he has rooted the BlackBerry PlayBook and will be releasing an installer for it soon.  The root will work for current and 2.0 beta operating systems too.  If all comes out true, I’m pretty sure RIM isn’t too happy about it and will be getting to work on a new update pronto preventing these things from happening again.

Source: N4BB

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