Comments on: HTC Locking Other Bootloaders, DROID Incredible 2 Could be Next?

By: Tcal

Tcal — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:21:00 +0000

Don’t jinx it now…

By: Tcal

Tcal — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:21:00 +0000

Don’t jinx it now…

By: Chase Chick

Chase Chick — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:01:00 +0000

Looks more and more like my next phone will be a Nexus. There is now no doubt in my mind. Hopefully there is a newer one coming out soon. I will absolutely not deal with a locked down bootloader that the manufacturer stops supporting. The reason is because if I choose to put another launcher, the other launcher is still in memory and is a drag on resources (even if you delete everything off the home screens). The only way around this is to have only one launcher on the phone at a time, and to delete what you aren’t using with tibu. Also having wired tether is indispensable. I don’t abuse it, but I will use it with my laptop if I’m out and about and just happen to need internet access.

So ef you moto, and now ef you htc. I actually think BOTH UI’s are hideous. Same goes for Samsung. I have never seen a manufacturer UI that I would purposely put on my phone. And the new UI on the Atrix is the worst one yet.

Manufacturers, with your various “skins” the only way you are distinguishing yourselves is who is the biggest retard. If you want to add some functionality or widgets or something I’m game, but forcing UI on us that can’t be replaced is indefensible.

By: Chase Chick

Chase Chick — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:01:00 +0000

By: Winston Lane

Winston Lane — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:38:00 +0000

I think thats what its gonna come down to. Im not an Crapple fan but if all this craziness we call locking is going on, to me its the same thing as…… III..iiiii.i…..iiiIII.IPPPPhone.

Man that was hard.

By: Winston Lane

Winston Lane — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:26:00 +0000

TOOOOOOOOO! FUNNY!!!!

By: Winston Lane

Winston Lane — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:13:00 +0000

LOL

By: LivinFree

LivinFree — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Why are people even surprised at this. It is old news the mfgs are getting forced to lock devices. It’s only been a matter of time. to further add i’ve seen many many hints of this coming from some of the great insiders we see in the Android community who get info from carrier and mfg insiders. On that note if you think this is bad just wait until they get some of there new security measures in place on the device side and network side they have been working on. Oh and by the way it is not relative to any one carrier of device mfg this is like an across the board type deal they are all working on.

By: LivinFree

LivinFree — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0000

By: LivinFree

LivinFree — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:54:00 +0000

+1 well put my friend

By: RW-1

RW-1 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:25:00 +0000

“We’ve been hearing for months now that carriers are starting to place more and more stress on manufacturers to find ways to keep users like you and I out.”

Carriers – know thy place! To provide network service, nothing more.

By: Hank Godwin

Hank Godwin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Am I really going to have to switch to Sprint just to get the next Nexus phone? Come on Google/Verizon, if you”re going to allow/insist on encrypted or locked bootloaders, at least provide an option for those of us that can’t accept that.

By: Angrykleptos

Angrykleptos — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:12:00 +0000

Nexus S is looking better and better. Here I come, Sprint?

By: Bullet Tooth Tony

Bullet Tooth Tony — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:42:00 +0000

As a matter of just bringing up the other side of the argument here… moving from a rooted Droid to a non-rooted Thunderbolt… if Sense keeps having little unique features like it does, flipping to silence a ringer, flipping during a call to turn on speaker, ability to end a call from the notification window, etc… I’ll happily stay un-rooted. I’d be more concerned about SIM-locking, or more appropriately SIM-unlocking, in all honesty…