Droid discussions~Part III

thanks....i wish you all a happy new year too.....i know it can get worse but i sincerely hope its better...

Heya all call me a slacker but I just got back in town. Happy New Year to everyone!!!!!

FYI to everyone you should seriously consider device upgrades if you have a NE2 up and ready for use. Not sure if anyone has heard but VZW is changing policy on 1/16/2011 and the NE2 upgrades are going away as well as annual upgrades. After 1/16 you will only be able ot upgrade at promotional pricing every 2 yrs or 20months into a 2yr contract. If you want sooner you'll have to pay full retail unless when you resign you go with a 1yr contract and pay a little bit more for the device up front so you can upgrade again within 10 months on your 1 yr contract.

Also got wind that Honeycomb has a spec requirement of needing a dual core chip to even be able to use it. So it looks like Gingerbread is going to be the end of the road for all current devices out on the market atm.

Agreed the whole NE2 policy change sux ass. However if you think that is bad just give it some time and wait until they announce or discuss the new security measures going to be put in place on ALL devices from ALL mfgs. So for all these whiners complaining about the locked bootloader on the Motos they have not seen shit yet. As for Honeycomb it is designed with headsets and Tablets in mind. Gingerbread is more specific to Tablets.

As for the XOOM I agree looks really sweet and all but I have no use or need. Personally yo this day I don't get the point of Tablets. IMO they are oversized cellphones that are kinda useless. I'll stick with my smartphone and a Laptop for my computing needs and say piss on the Tablets as I never plan to buy one. On the Bionic looks really nice also and I like a few of the changes they made to it from the last one I saw. On thing I don't like is how they moved the dam usb & hdmi plug again toward the top of the device. it is an awkward position to have them IMO. Specially when you need to charge in the car and talk on the dam thing with the wire hanging right out the side of the device where you need to hold the phone.

I'm with ya piss on the Tablets. they can take them and shove them up there ass for all I care.....lol.

as for your comment on the HTC G2 you are correct. And if you think that is bad this new stuff the are working on will put that to shame. And word is traveling this will start popping up on ALL the carriers on all devices as they are all working together to put the hacking to an end. So all these whiners can really start whining if they think and HTC or Sammy will be easier to hack, because the fact is they won't be and will almost be next to impossible to hack if they get this done and functioning right. I can't say much at this point but if and when all is said and done this whole idea of Android being open source and allowing us to do what we want could & may come to an end and none of the devices will get hacked like we are use to. and with that said if you choose to you'll be extremely bent when the device no longer functions at all what so ever. May turn on and function but it will not work on the network anymore so it is useless.

Keep in mind from what I'm told this all stems from people who are trying to hack devices and bricking them to then return them for warranty claims to be replaced. And it is costing the MFGS a shit ton of money so they are looking and found a way to possiblly stop it for good.

BTW I also found out VZW now has a way to track and tell if a device is rooted and running on there network. And as soon as that MEID is logged as being rooted you will not be allowed to get a warranty replacement because you voided the warranty.

Here is one man's take on rooting past, present and future:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openn...

And he's an android developer.