Android
DROID DOES
Welcome to the Android community on Lemmy. Here you can participate in amazing discussions and events relating to all things Android.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
1. All posts must be relevant to Android devices/operating system.
2. Posts cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
3. No spam, self promotion, or upvote farming. Sources engaging in these behavior will be added to the Blacklist.
4. Non-whitelisted bots will be banned.
5. Engage respectfully: Harassment, flamebaiting, bad faith engagement, or agenda posting will result in your posts being removed. Excessive violations will result in temporary or permanent ban, depending on severity.
6. Memes are not allowed to be posts, but are allowed in the comments.
7. Posts from clickbait sources are heavily discouraged. Please de-clickbait titles if it needs to be submitted.
8. Submission statements of any length composed of your own thoughts inside the post text field are mandatory for any microblog posts, and are optional but recommended for article/image/video posts.
Community Resources:
view the rest of the comments
So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers... do they want to fucking fail here??
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not ~~get paid by to be put on the whitelist~~ support.
God I hate Verizon. I'm never touching their fucking service lol
AT&T started using a whitelist too at some point. T-Mobile is the last major carrier left to not care what phone you use.
Its a bribe? I wasnt aware of that. That fucking sucks.
Verizon doesn't support a lot of unlocked devices even sold from major manufacturers
Concur. But gotta look at the frequencies, there is a chance most Verizon /visible freqs are supported