OpenMoko phone schedule announced

Posted Jan 26, 2007 16:33 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: OpenMoko phone schedule announced by bradfitz
Parent article: OpenMoko phone schedule announced

Phones (are supposed to) have a unique identifier (the IMEI -- your phone is supposed to display it when you dial *#06#), part of which is a manufacturer code.

So yes, carriers could decide to block the OpenMoko phones.

Why they would want to do that is another matter. Presumably, people buy that phone in order to, well, phone, and blocking that would lose them money -- as well as opening them up to breach-of-contract lawsuits (the phone will have regulatory approval, after all).

I'm looking forward to getting one of these. Even though it doesn't do UMTS. Yet. :-/