Modder Roots Six-Foot-Tall Nexus S, Impresses Geeks

18.08.2011
Those supersized versions of cellphone models you find in shops are pretty good at swaying people to buy a particular brand--who wouldn't stop to play on an oversized Android phone? But one Best Buy shopper decided that just using the demo phones as intended was a little dull, so instead he .

Wait, what?

Serial ("" on YouTube) was waiting for his Nexus S to be repaired when he noticed the innocent six-foot-tall Nexus S demo unit. Seeing as he had some time to kill, he decided to root the big Nexus. Sadly, he doesn't go into a lot of detail how he rooted the phone, but he does show you proof that it's rooted via Terminal Emulator--if you get the British Pound sign there, it apparently means your device is rooted. He did mention that it took a long time to reboot.

It's pretty fascinating, not only because it's a fun-sized phone that's got root, but also because he didn't get caught! What method he used to root it, we won't quite know, but if you want him to root your phone, he too.

Check out proudly showing you his rootwork.

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