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Yeah. Keep in mind those phones are bricked forever. It is probably much easier to disable phone service in a certain region from the network side. I would imag
by biafra 12y ago
Yeah. Keep in mind those phones are bricked forever. It is probably much easier to disable phone service in a certain region from the network side. I would imagine people suing the police for destroying their phones.
- xxs 12y agoI seriously, seriously doubt 'bricked' forever. Unless the hardware actually overheats, it'd be possible to replace the relevant parts with cheap China imports.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI haven't seen anything like it in the US. But I spent some time in China, and at the local grocery store close to my apartment, there were a couple of teen-aged looking kids with a hot-air soldering station and some smt stencils who were re-working cell phones (probably failed QC) in their spare time when they weren't selling sunglasses or wristwatches and that kind of stuff.