New wiki page - Problems of typical "closed" phones

Schmidt András asch at freemail.hu
Sun Feb 3 21:39:44 CET 2008


Sorry, I have updated that.

AFAIK:
Here (in Hungary) it is illegal to unlock your phone. Certainly you can 
buy unlocked phone for a higher price, but unlocking already locked ones 
(by "experts") is illegal. There are many people earning their money 
from this illegal activity though...


Schmidt András


Andy Powell wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008 19:55, JW wrote:
>   
>> Hi Openmoko community
>>
>> I created a new page to list the problems of typical "closed" phones with
>> the intention of informing potential Openmoko phone buyers.
>>
>> Please add your examples to the 4 I included as a starting point.
>> Feedback welcome! :-)
>>
>> JW
>>
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Problems_of_typical_%22closed%22_phones
>>
>>     
>
> Well, first of all unlocking phones is NOT illegal - I have no idea where you 
> got that from.
>
> Quite a few of the 'problems' you have pointed out are carrier issues not 
> handset issues, ie it wont matter if you have a GTA01/02 or not. eg the use 
> of voip software...
>
> Andy
>
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