Archos 605 WiFi is hacked, (705 WiFi and 604 WiFi as well), happy new year
Posted by Charbax on January 1st, 2008
User fiat hacked it in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=11144
More information at: http://code.google.com/p/arcwelder/
Posted to Slashdot: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/01/01/0131228.shtml
Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/arcwelder-gives-root-binary-executable-to-archos-605-and-705-p/
and Digg: http://digg.com/mods/Archos_605_wifi_hacked
Perhaps Archos reaction to this will be as Apple’s reaction to the iPhone hacks, to release a software development kit, which could possibly help speed up the release of more of the features of the firmware wishlist: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=5046
As far as I understand it, this might still be far from usable in a way that third party developers could add many new features through this hack, and also Archos could close this hole in a next firmware update.