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I don’t think I’ve had a locked phone since around 2012.

I’m guessing people still get them because they need financing? Seems like a poor choice most of the time.

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@kuneho@lemmy.world · Dec 17

I remember when carriers not just locked the phones, they also had custom firmwares filled with bloat and customized skins and even locking down features and all that shit. For example, I had a Sony Ericsson K700i and it had a disgustingly customized FW on it, and aside that it was ugly, I could only play MP3 files that I purchased through Vodafone. Sending them via bluetooth (or even with IR) didn’t work, the phone refused to play it back.

(Then of course I found out that Sony Ericssons were pretty moddable phones so I replaced the FW with an original one and that solved all my problems. Using VKP patches were just

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