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Unlocked phones aren't necessarily uncommon, if you're in the USA all "mobile wireless devices" can be unlocked in some manner[1]. It's nice that they give you
by whorleater 11y ago
Unlocked phones aren't necessarily uncommon, if you're in the USA all "mobile wireless devices" can be unlocked in some manner[1]. It's nice that they give you an unlocked bootloader out of the box, but most popular Android bootloaders have been community unlocked in some manner. And I assume if you're willing to go to the effort of disabling their entire sync service you're kinda just left with a regular Android phone, and it'll probably be hard to replicate the entire stack nextbit has to sync on your own server.
[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/cell-phone-unlocking-faqs https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/cell-phone-unlocking-fa...
- sirkneeland 11y agoeven if the bootloaders are unlocked, you usually still face an issue with all those non-open drivers to make the phone work right. One annoying example is how Sony's Xperia phones can have their bootloaders unlocked, but Sony keeps the secret sauce behind their image sensor's software locked up in a proprietary, inaccessible blob that (IIRC) other ROM makers have been unable to integrate into their Xperia builds. If Nexbit is not only unlocking the bootloader but providing the hw drivers as open source, that could be a bigger deal.