I'm completely done with carrier-specific firmware on any cellphone. Carriers see handsets as some sort of marketing channel to sell you overpriced crap; ringtones you have to re-buy every 6 months that cost more than the actual single, games, apps, etc. They disable bluetooth profiles so you have to use their (expensive) networks to transfer pictures or other data. The carriers are uninterested in selling phones that are useful for anything other than being something you can use to buy something from them. Now they're even putting ads and branding in the phone apps. Yuck. It's bad enough that when I send an MMS to an email address my carrier plasters their logo all over it. I expect soon to have to tolerate audio bumpers at the beginning of my calls "This call is from a T-Mobile phone, one moment while we connect you..."
I either buy phones with generic firmware or re-image them with generic firmware. It sounds like the iphone is just another example of Marketing nonsense that is alienating customers. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
