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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by tomjakubowski on Monday August 27, 2012 @04:22AM (#4437921)
Wouldn't you still need to root the phone? The stack is definitely more open than on iOS though.
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Re:NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites by StuieK on Monday August 27, 2012 @04:35AM (#4437954)
Yeah we do have to root the phones but given the opensource aspirations of the project itself, Android was the most suitable.
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