Ipod Nano Hacked

Just the other day I got my Ipod nano and my wife's also.  Engraved and ready to use, BUT, it remains sealed until now because the reason we actually got it was to use it with this (from www.lunatik.com)

We Pre-ordered it from the owner's Kickstarter Project and can't wait to get it.  Personally I will use this nano as a watch, mainly as a watch but I wouldn't mind having some apps installed like a calculator or currency converter, alarm, stop watch, chronograph face theme or maybe even a multi-country clock or something.. there are just so many possibilities. Maybe even a small game of "Snake" like the one's you see on Nokia Phones.

Well here is some good news, look's like my wish has be heard and will be granted very very soon!

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Source: Macstories

Some progress on hacking the new iPod nano has finally been made by developer James Whelton who has done a basic springboard hack, figured out how to bypass the cache comparison and uncovered some interesting information.

The springboard hack is just the removal of a app and creation of a blank space. Not that amazing, but whats important is the bypass of Nano’s cache comparison, which compares any modded SB file and reverts it if it doesn’t like it, this opens up the possibility of hacking and modding, while not adding bootloaders or any of that fun stuff.

Next is the discovery in some of the device’s plists of reference to support of Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Games, vCards, Calender events and so on, with a few other cool things like a passcode lock. With the bypass I figured out, I hope to enable these pretty soon. It seems like the OS is a rehashed version of the previous Nano’s OS.

Whelton is hoping to get a bootloader on the device to expand its functionality. You can follow or get involved in the new touch Nano hacking process at http://nanohack.me