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Hacking the Motorola v265
phoric writes "Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless cripples their phones so that you have to use their fee-based service in order to add new ringtones, or to transfer the pictures you take with the camera. The Verizon logo conceals the date display on the main screen and covers over the top portion of the background, among various other corporate silliness. Selling a device that is intentionally crippled is just plain ridiculous. Of course, the only natural thing to do in a situation like this is to hack it."
OMGWTFBBQ?
Oh my god!
What the fsck?
Bar-b-que!
How to hack your intentionally crippled toaster so that you can achieve temperatures upwards of 1000 degrees Farenheit
holy shit I cant wait! sounds much safer than playing with microwave ovens"
If you buy the phone, and then hack it (which I am sure is illegal anyway) you still tell the phonecompany "Please do this again" or to get closer to the truth "I like it when you screw me, please please do it again".
Drive the market with your money, don't get a phone that is crippled, don't get a phone which you have to hack to make normal use of (hack for the sake of hacking is always a different story). Let's face it, it is not hard to make the phones without these restrictions, and you can bet that no phone company would refuse to make them if the market demands them.
But if you buy these infernal phones...