The Chevron WP7 tool which was developed for unlocking the Windows Phone 7 devices, was discontinued by the developers itself within a week of it’s availability in the month of November. This tool allowed the users to deploy any third-party Windows Phone 7 applications without requiring a Marketplace developer account and adding custom ringtones (which is a missing feature in the locked WP7 devices).
Though the Tool was officially removed from their site, there were reports about the tool was still being utilized. But not any more!
The developers of this tool reported yesterday that after the first update for Windows Phone 7 (codenamed NoDo) which is slated to be released this month, the tool will no longer work, as the first WP7 update will disable the “Code Error”.
The update will in effect, block the ChevronWP7 tool from working!
This means that after the first update nobody will be able to use the ChevronWP7 tool to unlock the Windows Phone7!
The developers of the tools also hope to meet up with the Windows Phone 7 Team next week to discuss the Homebrews future to the platform, in addition to that they’ll also work on bringing stronger protection of WP7 developer intellectual property (IP).
It would be interesting to see what will they discuss about the Homebrew future for WP7 at the meetup.
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