Title: CINGULAR branded firmware
Product review: I bought this direct from Amazon, and their "unlocked" phone is technically unlocked, but it has Cingular-branded firmware.For anyone not familiar with that, "branded" is a euphemism for "hacked up by the carrier to remove features and replace useful menu options with links to buy stuff." I guess "branded" is shorter than saying all that.This is not a "clean" L7. You may as well buy an unlocked Cingular phone from ebay.I have not yet checked all features to see what has been removed from this phone, although I immediately notice that even signed Java applications require constant "permission", while an unbranded phone would accept the Verisign certificate.
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