Thread: Let's talk Nokia stock. Really.
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-08-12 , 05:38
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Originally Posted by PurpleXS8 View Post
My idea of a great phone will be the following: Make a closed device for the masses, so they can mess thing up just because they try stuff, and offer the possibility to switch this device into a developer/hacker device. You pay a fee and they give you source and whatever else you need to make this an enjoyable device for developers too. This way you protect the dumb, and give satisfaction to the tech maniacs.
Well, isn't this actually just the thing Nokia did with N9?
When you use it without developer mode and with deault settings (only install from the store) you get the everymans/womans phone with nice GUI & installable safe apps.

When you enable developer mode & flash a custom kernel it's all your playground. And to top it off, you get this without a fee.

Originally Posted by PurpleXS8 View Post
HTC is the only company who have this option for the customers. Get a HTC and you get it locked, running an Android branded by HTC. If you want to take it to the next level visit http://www.htcdev.com/ which is an official website by HTC and unlock your device to have access and mutate this device after your own will. Too bad MS is never going to do this for any device (checked the website for dev unlocking for my 8s and guess what, it's not there, because IT WOULD BE USELESS since MS have not opened any sources).
So what's the difference here? How much more open the HTC device is after unlocking? Do you get ALL the source, I somehow doubt it?

With N9 you get most of the important bits as source, there are lots of stuff that's NOT opened and that's an annoyance but really, you get the important stuff on a DVD just by asking for it, no need to pay even for the cost of the media&shipping (For which they COULD actually charge you for, according to the open source licencing...)