The Skype application on my friends new Verizon Droid is a special
version which forces him to use cell-phone air-time/minutes, rather than
his data plan, to place calls. Other stuff is locked down as well
unless you "root" the phone.
The US cell-phone market is a horrible mess. 1GB of pay-as-you-go 3G
data (couldn't believe it was even available to begin with) on AT&T is
$50 or 100,000/=.
The only fix, as far as I can see it, would be to break Verizon and AT&T
up into about 4-6 different companies -- and to forcefully separate
retail phone sales from the service providers.
On 9/10/2010 3:03 PM, sanga collins wrote:
Interesting article about how androids openess is a disadvantage for
american android users
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/09/android-open/
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