T-Mobile G2 said to have ‘hardware rootkit’ that restricts modifications
Say it with us now: "Here we go again." Just months after a particular eFuse predicament left legions of Droid X owners fuming, it seems that an all-too-familiar scenario is presenting itself to the earliest of T-Mobile G2 buyers. As the story goes, there's a problematic microchip embedded into the handset which "prevents device owners from making permanent changes that allow custom modifications to the the Android operating system." That's according to a lengthy New America report on the issue, which outright proclaims that a hardware rootkit "restricts modifications to a device owned by the user." In other words, if you install some fishy (or not fishy, for that matter) third party ROM, the phone is capable of overriding your software changes and reinstalling the original firmware -- makes perfect sense considering how earlier roots were " vanishing " post-reboot. Needless to say, this isn't exactly going over well with the tinkering community, and a 40+ page thread has already exploded over at xda developers .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ample, earliest, engadget, legions, mobile, nonsense, perfect, result, root, Roots, stock, time, tinkering, xda-developers
Innpu’s ‘wired phone’ has retractable headphones, intractable sense of self-worth
This is news to us, but apparently there have been "few noteworthy advancements" in smartphone hardware since the iPhone and BlackBerry came out. Out to fix this stale, plateaued industry is Innpu, with its revolutionarily new "wired phone" (it's bad news when even the manufacturer puts the product name in quotation marks, right?)
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: black, entry, gimmick, iphone, joke, manufacturer, nonsense, retractable headphones, seen-earphones, setting-the-new, technology
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: badass, bluetooth, dell, nonsense, pda, ultra-rugged, wheel, windows