http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
That is why an unlocked phone can be to your advantage.
On Feb 16, 2013 10:06 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au
wrote:
The phone is just a touch over two years old. Even though my contract
has expired, and the phone company has offered an upgrade, its only on
the proviso that I change plans, which would see me losing roaming (a
big deal in a country where mobile coverage it pretty ratshit out of
the big cities). Upgrading the phone would also see me putting the old
phone back in the drawer, not to be used again, as the SIM has changed
format, for the first time in my mobile phone history.
My experience has been so far that every phone upgrade has seen the
loss of as much functionality as new functionality gained. At each
generation, its a different set of functionality I have to do without,
or find alternative ways of meeting the need.
As I said - my phone does everything I need of it right now. At some
point upgrading will become compelling - hopefully that happens before
the phone dies physically.
Cheers
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:48:53PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Android 1.6?
Let me guess: you're also one of those running an ASCII email client, as
well. I believe I see a pattern.
(Message sent from my rooted, cyanogen modded Android 4.2.2
work-in-progress gorilla glass excuse for a phone).
On Feb 16, 2013 9:35 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au
wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:34:39AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
I don't want to be flame bait (oh well, maybe i do) .. I posted
this on
your blog post:
I'm surprised anyone buys android phones at all. They're stuck
between a
rock and a hard place: If they buy from Google they have your well
articulated problems.
But if they get another handset mfgrs phone, they get no updates ..
as
far
as I know most give you the vanilla android+their device's drivers
with
little to no upgrades over time.
cyanogenmod? Er.. sorta proves the point!
Updates is not the only reason to buy a phone. I went Android
(upgrading from Symbian), precisely because of the iOS lockdown
prevents me from using a couple of critical features on iPhone (namely
USB Mass store, and USB modem - aka tethering).
Yes, it would be nice to have had some updates to Android (I'm on 1.6
(donut?)), but its not the end of the world, as the phone basically
does everything I need of it.
Cheers
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