July 16, 2003
Ominous P800 Story
Bummer. I thought I was safe on this issue when I bought the P800. If you'll recall, I cited Dan Gillmor's post about Cory Doctorow's post saying that T-mobile was refusing to support Sidekicks that had unauthorized software put on them. I just assumed that this wouldn't be a problem with the P800 as there's a third-party software market out there. People routinely buy additional software for the P800 - as I said before, it is definitely a computer, not just a cell phone. So this latest comes as a surprise.
Mobitopia has a post about it and this month's Your Symbian ezine (I like this ezine - get their 9 back issues if you have a Symbian device) article is called "A lesson in 'warranty' replacement - Jordan". This is a well-written little story if you are interested.
Jim Hughes at Mobitopia summarizes:
Jordan's P800 crashed and wouldn't reboot so he took it to a SonyEricsson service centre, who eventually returned it to him unfixed because he'd installed unauthorised software on it.Yes? Hello? It's a computer! That's what people do with computers, they install software on them and use them, but not in SonyEricsson's world it seems....
Here's hoping community wi-fi turns out to be more than a pipedream - and fast. These cellular carriers are for the birds! One last note, I just googled for Community Wi-Fi and up came Marin Community Wi-Fi Network. That pointed me to a hilarious war driving Doonesbury cartoon you gotta see.
Posted by tokerud at July 16, 2003 09:55 PM | TrackBack