http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/ Engadget Comments for Rogers yanks HTC Dream from shelves for urgent emergency call fix http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
Honestly, porting to 1.6 from 1.5 is not hard. ]]>Jan 16th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Android is pretty unique in this.]]>Jan 16th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
The Linux kernel that Android runs on, however, is licensed under the GNU GPL. HTC is legally obliged to release the kernel source code, which they have continually refused to do.]]>Jan 16th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
actually you both have it backwards, the Magic is the one with more RAM and is going to be upgraded to 2.0/2.1, not the dream...and Rogers is offering a free Magic (plus $50!) to all Dream owners. ]]>Jan 16th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Ah. Reading is fundie mental then.]]>Jan 16th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
Uh, yes, we do use 911.

Why is this so surprising?]]>Jan 16th 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/It's not surprising that there is an emergency number, it's that it's 911. I remember looking them up awhile ago and most countries had different numbers.]]>Jan 16th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/

"@JakeMG It's more of a storage space problem. 2.0 can run adequately, given enough optimization, on a device with 192MB of RAM. Magic has 512MB ROM, while Dream has just 256MB ROM. When you bring Sense in it, though, the extra RAM is needed."

actually the magic has 288 MB ram and dream has 192 MB, what your talking about is flash memory, so built in storage.]]>Jan 17th 2010 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Probably was working until l something else was changed, either 1.6 update or something on the carrier's end.

...and don't call me surely.]]>Jan 16th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
Oh sorry, that was too easy.]]>Jan 16th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
Apparently using an HTC Dream seems to put you in less emergency situations than other phones?]]>Jan 16th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Maybe no one using the phone called 911 and used GPS at the same time until now.]]>Jan 16th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Or maybe they tried but how would we know.....*stares at English G1*]]>Jan 16th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Imagine you are in an emergency and dial 911 and it doesn't work, would you ever figure out to disable GPS to try without knowing this news? And if it doesn't work would you then later when not in an emergency go around trying 911? (And be charged with frivolous misuse of the emergency system.)
Seems more wondrous that they figured out that GPS/911 link eventually, since it makes no sense whatsoever that one would influence the other.
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I got the text from Rogers last night too.]]>Jan 16th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/
N900 ftw!]]>Jan 16th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 16th 2010 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/Jan 17th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/The official alarm number for cellphones is actually 112, try that the next time.
]]>Jan 17th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/16/rogers-yanks-htc-dream-from-shelves-for-urgent-emergency-call-fi/The GSM mobile phone standard designates 112 as an emergency number, so it will work on GSM phones even in North America where GSM system redirects emergency calls to 911 or Australia where emergency calls are redirected to 000. It is one of two numbers (the other being the region's own emergency number) that can be dialed on most GSM phones even if the phone is locked.
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