[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Greg Clifton]

Well, if what you are saying is that they can blow away the old Droids, too
it's really going to turn me off of not only V, but Motorolla for any future
phone. What's the use of having an open OS on the phone when the service
provider locks it down so you can't benefit from the openness?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am considering going GSM, however, the big V has me by the short hairs,
> or at least the wallet on 2 of 5 phones on the family plan till June '11 and
> till Aug '10 for another, so I can't afford to leave now. Furthermore, ATT
> coverage isn't all that great and Tmobile is worse (I live ~ 30mi S. of
> Atl). Maybe LTE which V & ATT are going to will solve that by 2013? I am
> leery of Sprint's Wimax service so I don't think that is a viable option for
> the next year or two at least.
> GC
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> Well, if you switch to a GSM network (where you get more control and
>> flexibility), you could get an HTC Dream or a Nexus One and run whatever you
>> want on it.  I am still running the Dream, but plan to buy a new phone in
>> the next 1 to 3 years when one comes out that is (IMHO) worth upgrading to.
>>
>> The latest CyanogenMod, which is built around Android 2.2 with the JIT
>> compiler (disabled by default, but easy enough to enable) has put a breath
>> of new life in my current phone, so I don't feel like I need to upgrade
>> anymore for now.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my HTC Dream---Running Froyo!
>> Thanks, @cyanogen!
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2010 12:21 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/1317205/Droid-X-Self-Destructs-If-You-Try-To-Mod
>> >
>> > So the Motorola Droid I bought doesn't really belong to me. Somewhere I
>> > missed the "and Motorola reserves the right to destroy your device on a
>> > whim" clause in the paperwork when I bought the it.
>> >
>> > <tinfoil hat>since verizon can push any update to the phone, it is
>> possible
>> > to brick this thing remotely for "Terms of Service" violations as well.
>> The
>> > "Internet kill switch" has been pushed out to the users. What does the
>> > iphone, blackberry and the htc series of stuff have?</tinfoil hat>
>> >
>> > --
>> > --
>> > James P. Kinney III
>> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in
>> chains.
>>
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