What I learned was that verizon is notorious for crippling phones in order to "protect you from malware." The common belief is that verizon actually does this to prevent you from uploading your own mp3 ringtones, wallpapers, etc.
As someone who used to work for Ericsson, writing firmware for Sprint and Verizon phones, I won't disagree with this statement. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
