Verizon says original Droid 'doesn't have the hardware' to support a mobile hotspot

[Anubis]

fixed title

interesting, seeing as its a flat out lie

happier i rooted more and more every day


http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/motorola-says-original-droid-doesnt-have-the-hardware-to-supp/

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/30/new-dmupdater-beta-easily-roots-android-2-1/

 

[Glitchny]

should be "Doesn't have the hardware that lets us lock it down and make you pay for the Mobile Hotspot feature" bastards.

 

[Spoooon]

should be "Doesn't have the hardware that lets us lock it down and make you pay for the Mobile Hotspot feature" bastards.

 

[gsaldivar]

The last sentence of that article says it all...

"we have a sneaking suspicion that Motorola isn't passing over the feature because of a lack of hardware, but because of too much hardware -- namely, the Droid 2 and Droid X..."

 

[Anubis]

should be "Doesn't have the hardware that lets us lock it down and make you pay for the Mobile Hotspot feature" bastards.

lawl

 

[pyr02k1]

crap ... i never knew i didnt have the hardware to do what i was doing all that time.

 

[JD50]

Wow, what a bunch of BS.

They started out so great with the Droid and it's just gone downhill from there.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Typical Motorola. And you wonder why the nearly died in the past 5 years. I thought the Droid was a good return of the company, but seriously, they supported it like trash. 2.2 already yeah?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Engadget originally gave their article the wrong title. It's Verizon that made this claim, not Motorola.

Still an incredibly dumb statement though.

 

[Anubis]

fixed the title

 

[Bateluer]

Per Motorola's instructions, my next Android phone will not be a Motorola product.

 

[rudeguy]

should be "Doesn't have the hardware that lets us lock it down and make you pay for the Mobile Hotspot feature" bastards.

/thread

 

[pm]

It's not just Verizon/Motorola. I remember when the original iPhone didn't have the right hardware to support MMS.
http://www.tipb.com/2009/03/17/iphone-3g-support-mms-original-iphone/

It took all of about 30 minutes for me to create a new ipsw which pulled over the MMS software from the iPhone 3G, and import it into an iPhone 2G following a recipe that someone else wrote. And now you can just pull over a Cydia package and do it even faster.

 

[gorcorps]

It's not just Verizon/Motorola. I remember when the original iPhone didn't have the right hardware to support MMS.
http://www.tipb.com/2009/03/17/iphone-3g-support-mms-original-iphone/

It took all of about 30 minutes for me to create a new ipsw which pulled over the MMS software from the iPhone 3G, and import it into an iPhone 2G following a recipe that someone else wrote. And now you can just pull over a Cydia package and do it even faster.

Or when Apple claimed the 3G didn't have the hardware to do voice activation stuff that the 3GS had... even though other apps had voice activation features that worked on the 3G.