Not only that, but the phones offered by carriers are utterly SUCKED and they really avoid giving us great phones such as Symbian based phones. Right now, on AT&T store, they only have Nokia N75 is S60 Symbian based because they know, S60 devices can easily be flashed back to the stock firmware after the phone is unlocked... Many people has done this, asked AT&T to unlock the phone and flash it back to the regular ol' Nokia firmware to dump all the junk AT&T gave us on the phone... The process itself is super simple, involving lying to AT&T and tell AT&T you're going overseas and need an unlock code and after it's unlocked, you simply use 2 simple software (one is 3rd party and one is OFFICIAL Nokia firmware updater) to flash the software back to Nokia firmware and FREE FROM AT&T JUNK
They hate it if we do this because we will start using the abundance of S60 3rd part software and stop using their shitty crippled pay-to-use applications such as SMS-based IM as opposed to Data-based IM which should be way cheaper.
If you notice, the S60 symbian based phones that were sold from the carriers can be counted by your finger because it's not much at all. Partly because the carriers do not want us to start flashing the firmware back easily to the stock firmware and throw away all their junk branded software, and the 2nd part is mainly due to the fact that many people are just cheap and wanting a free RAZR phones.
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Not only that, but the phones offered by carriers are utterly SUCKED and they really avoid giving us great phones such as Symbian based phones. Right now, on AT&T store, they only have Nokia N75 is S60 Symbian based because they know, S60 devices can easily be flashed back to the stock firmware after the phone is unlocked... Many people has done this, asked AT&T to unlock the phone and flash it back to the regular ol' Nokia firmware to dump all the junk AT&T gave us on the phone... The process itself is super simple, involving lying to AT&T and tell AT&T you're going overseas and need an unlock code and after it's unlocked, you simply use 2 simple software (one is 3rd party and one is OFFICIAL Nokia firmware updater) to flash the software back to Nokia firmware and FREE FROM AT&T JUNK
They hate it if we do this because we will start using the abundance of S60 3rd part software and stop using their shitty crippled pay-to-use applications such as SMS-based IM as opposed to Data-based IM which should be way cheaper.
If you notice, the S60 symbian based phones that were sold from the carriers can be counted by your finger because it's not much at all. Partly because the carriers do not want us to start flashing the firmware back easily to the stock firmware and throw away all their junk branded software, and the 2nd part is mainly due to the fact that many people are just cheap and wanting a free RAZR phones.