[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:28 -0400, Greg Clifton 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.

I haven't been south of Atlanta much, but I can say that my T-Mobile
service has been pretty reliable everywhere that I have been from
Atlanta metro to Detroit, MI, both on and off the beaten path, so to
speak.  There is one place in Ohio where T-Mobile doesn't cover that I
have been---but then again, there is *no* cell phone coverage there
whatsoever.  I can about 10% of the time in that one particular location
get a local GSM carrier.  Fortunately for me, roaming is free on our
plan.*

	--- Mike

* Well, at least with the plan that I had at the time, it was.  We've
since switched to the "Even More Plus" contract-less and subsidy-free
plan.  I haven't actually checked the details on roaming on that plan,
since I roam almost never.