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Living Room / Re: A rant against the SmartPhone ecosystem.
« on: October 18, 2011, 05:02 AM »
Following the forums I've heard reports that HTC run a kind of don't ask, don't tell policy. If you void your warranty installing custom roms they still tend to repair genuine hardware faults like a faulty screen which weren't related to your software messing.

But that's not an official policy.

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Living Room / Re: A rant against the SmartPhone ecosystem.
« on: October 18, 2011, 04:00 AM »
One thing I really do wonder about is how warranties would work if phones shipped unlocked. For example once you root an android phone you can overclock the cpu with ease. You can also do things like mess with drivers and just generally push the hardware beyond it's limits.

Asking a company to replace an entire phone because you burnt it out messing with cpu voltages feels difficult to justify.

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Living Room / Re: A rant against the SmartPhone ecosystem.
« on: October 17, 2011, 03:35 PM »
I was thinking unlocked as in jailbroken, doh :-[

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Living Room / Re: A rant against the SmartPhone ecosystem.
« on: October 17, 2011, 12:41 PM »
I'll not be surprised if apple starts shipping unlocked iphones in next few months, that's what they need to do in the absence of Steve and to sustain the android attack.
-mahesh2k (October 17, 2011, 11:55 AM)

I was about to say that'll never happen. But actually, now that jobs is gone maybe such a miracle is possible.

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Living Room / Re: A rant against the SmartPhone ecosystem.
« on: October 17, 2011, 11:22 AM »
Android OS is outselling iOS in smartphones at least and with companies like HTC offering a service to unlock their bootloader those phones truly are open.

As and example, I currently run CyanogenMod on the 2 year old HTC HD2, a phone that originally shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5. I bought it SIM free and have been able to go to foreign countries, pick up a pay as you go local SIM and use the phone without hassle on their networks.

BTW - It can also run Ubuntu, MeeGo and Windows Phone 7.

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