Hi all not new here just a new name and account. I have a real issue when a manufacturer implements certain hardware to be used and to only have it crippled by US carriers. This should be illegal to tamper with a makers device to deny the user a full experience. Not only that but here in California we will have a major earthquake and all power will be lost. Where do go for medical attention when the hospital is in rubble where are the Red Cross setting up which direction should I go?
If Sony LG and even Windows implement the FM chip and the carriers take it away just out of pure greed on their part, then they should be sued for crippling an emergency piece of hardware. This really bothers me and carriers should not be allowed to tamper with manufacturers products period!
Who gave them the power to do this? Can the FCC step in and have some sort of regulation on this tampering and crippling of a product? FM radio is important to me my z1s has been the best unrooted phone I've owned so far. I wonder if Sony made it a point to not make tmob to disable the FM chip why do the Xperia lines all have them and are not disabled by tmob. But they disable it on the G4 why on earth!?
Since I updated the Z1s to 5.0 it has serious issues with bt and wifi, to make a long story short I soft bricked it when flashing and gave up that night. Called big brother and sony sent instructions to get it back with pcc. The night before I was looking on LG's site at the G4 Whoa it has an FM chip kweel so I go to tmobs site look for specs and it's very vague. So I figured what the heck I'll try one out for 14 days only after I came here to get the 411 to find out they crippled the chip.
The phone will be here Wed but I'm thinking not to bother with it and just take it back to my local store for full refund. If they ask why I'll just say because you disabled the FM chip. And if he ask is that the only reason? I'll just say tampering with hardware and crippling it deliberately that could have saved lives is just plain wrong. But hey I guess the money is more important.
If Sony LG and even Windows implement the FM chip and the carriers take it away just out of pure greed on their part, then they should be sued for crippling an emergency piece of hardware. This really bothers me and carriers should not be allowed to tamper with manufacturers products period!
Who gave them the power to do this? Can the FCC step in and have some sort of regulation on this tampering and crippling of a product? FM radio is important to me my z1s has been the best unrooted phone I've owned so far. I wonder if Sony made it a point to not make tmob to disable the FM chip why do the Xperia lines all have them and are not disabled by tmob. But they disable it on the G4 why on earth!?
Since I updated the Z1s to 5.0 it has serious issues with bt and wifi, to make a long story short I soft bricked it when flashing and gave up that night. Called big brother and sony sent instructions to get it back with pcc. The night before I was looking on LG's site at the G4 Whoa it has an FM chip kweel so I go to tmobs site look for specs and it's very vague. So I figured what the heck I'll try one out for 14 days only after I came here to get the 411 to find out they crippled the chip.
The phone will be here Wed but I'm thinking not to bother with it and just take it back to my local store for full refund. If they ask why I'll just say because you disabled the FM chip. And if he ask is that the only reason? I'll just say tampering with hardware and crippling it deliberately that could have saved lives is just plain wrong. But hey I guess the money is more important.
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