On 04/26/2010 02:34 PM, James E. LaBarre wrote: > On 04/26/2010 01:09 PM, Mike Kershaw wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:16:59PM -0400, Matthias Johnson wrote: >>> Thank you for the clarification. But I guess that leaves my main >>> concern intact in that I wouldn't want to be limited to my updates >>> because of another company. The only benifit I have found for Sense is >> >> You will ALWAYS be in this situation. > > Which is why I'd prefer to stick with a DumbPhone, and use some PalmOS > or PalmOS-like device as my PDA. I'll do without a lot of the worthless > features if it means that **I** control my own hardware. It's > especially troubling to see that the only way to do that with the modern > crop of "smartphones" is to buy an "unlocked" model at 3-4x the price of > an old Palm Zire71.
It's sort of an odd argument. Because there exists a newer version of
an OS that you may or may not get for your smartphone, you instead
choose a phone that never can get an update, and a separate piece of
hardware that you have to sync with a wire to a single computer, which
may or may not be given new features by it's vendor in the future. :)
I'll agreed Android is not "stallman open", but compared to the
alternatives out there in the phone space, it's very open.
-Sean
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