On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Jason White wrote:
I was planning to buy one of these devices: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4?id=samsung_... but discovered that (1) they are available in the U.S. only, and (2) not surprisingly, they are designed for North American frequencies, i.e., 1700 MHz rather than the 1800 MHz bands used in Australia by the major carriers.
Hah! I was just talking about this at morning coffee (morning tea, pfffft. We're not British here, and most of us here aren't even of British ancestry. Plus, we have good taste).
The advantage, of course, is that the Google devices have unlocked boot loaders so you can replace the firmware yourself, if needed - and I might need it, for various reasons.
So, on a related topic, where the hell do you get your images from? Do people really go and download an image file from some random thread on xda forums? Surely people here find a more trusted source where NSA haven't tampered with the image before re-posting? That and the post about "no, we can't allow you to fix the broken permission model" thread just reminds me that phones are a different culture to Free culture. Bah, get off my lawn. -- Tim Connors