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		litewulf on Dec 10, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This hacker is not impressed with the G1 Can you give me a source for the hardware not having drivers? That makes no sense to me, how are you supposed to be able to reflash a phone in any meaningful sense without drivers so the phone, er, works.

amethyst on Dec 10, 2008 [–]

The hardware has drivers, just included as binary blobs; they are not open source, akin to Nvidia's binary driver for Linux.

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