Comments on: N810 – Dead Sexy http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/10/17/n810-dead-sexy/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Dude http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2007/10/17/n810-dead-sexy/comment-page-1/#comment-187617 Dude Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:37:35 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=395#comment-187617 Why no phone inside? I guess it's simple. Take a look on iPhone. Once you have phone inside - you no longer have a freedom. You're likely to be bound to a cell operator without alternatives. You have to use SIM and yes, you can't access Internet with 2 different devices from one account without physically transferring SIM. If you're device developer you have to put dumb restrictions to device and take efforts users to obey them. Because cell operators are afraid someone can hack their networks. So either you limit features with lame protections or your device is not offered by operator.Nokia did a great job on working around this STUPID issue.Special f...koff goes to cell operators (aka carriers). If we take a look on GSM, EDGE and 3G, it was developed as an open standard. These standards were intended to give a freedom of choice, making pre-programmed handsets a history.This worked fine on new markets like here in Russia.Yes, here you can buy the phone of your dream separately and it is not locked to operator.Then, you can choose carrier and contract you like. So, you're free and have freedom of choice. But now this fails in many other countries. Carriers are rather selling locked and branded phones and require DRM stuff so freedom of choice is limited and phones features are intentionally restricted and crippled. Nokia has worked this issue around in a GREAT way.You can have a decent power in your pocket.And freedom of choice is included.Not a case with iPhone, i should be j actually.Because of it's restrictions it's a [j]ail for your mind :P Why no phone inside? I guess it’s simple. Take a look on iPhone. Once you have phone inside – you no longer have a freedom. You’re likely to be bound to a cell operator without alternatives. You have to use SIM and yes, you can’t access Internet with 2 different devices from one account without physically transferring SIM. If you’re device developer you have to put dumb restrictions to device and take efforts users to obey them. Because cell operators are afraid someone can hack their networks. So either you limit features with lame protections or your device is not offered by operator.Nokia did a great job on working around this STUPID issue.Special f…koff goes to cell operators (aka carriers).

If we take a look on GSM, EDGE and 3G, it was developed as an open standard. These standards were intended to give a freedom of choice, making pre-programmed handsets a history.This worked fine on new markets like here in Russia.Yes, here you can buy the phone of your dream separately and it is not locked to operator.Then, you can choose carrier and contract you like. So, you’re free and have freedom of choice. But now this fails in many other countries. Carriers are rather selling locked and branded phones and require DRM stuff so freedom of choice is limited and phones features are intentionally restricted and crippled. Nokia has worked this issue around in a GREAT way.You can have a decent power in your pocket.And freedom of choice is included.Not a case with iPhone, i should be j actually.Because of it’s restrictions it’s a [j]ail for your mind :P

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