@Nick Greeno: I have done this with my Incredible and its internal memory. It could use a better controller, but the concept is sound. Maybe Sony's PSP Phone will be the one to do it right, with it's snazzy controls.

@Riff-Raff: Nope. Education software is pretty terrible too. In order to force textbook sales, a lot of courses/professors require that you buy online access to the textbook company's servers to turn in homework. And it never works with chrome and almost always works badly with firefox.

So if I buy a CDMA phone off of ebay with a bad esn, then use the phone's internal hidden (##PST#) settings to change carriers, without ever knowing what circumstances the phone came from, am I in the clear?

@whatne1wuddo: Blackberry is even worse, it also tells the other person whether you've opened/read it or not, rather than just whether your phone received it.

@Jamen Tyler Lang: Except BBM is one of the only things keeping people on BlackBerry/forcing ties to it. When BBM disappears (along with companies' bizarre insistence on using BES), RIM will be no more. They know they're not making a competitive product.

@holy holes batman: Or just download a game, depending on which game you're downloading. And don't even think about garry's mod, with all of its custom content downloading every time you join a server more or less.

@LightMage210: I think Steam just has killer servers, and some ISPs actually have a steam server directly on their network to reduce costs (don't think there are any in the US though). I've maxed out my connection with bittorrent as well, you have to remember that servers may have caps too.

@triggerx: The problem is that there won't be an unlimited $50 option if they get their way. This is a big issue. And if that's all your dad does, maybe he can get a lower speed/price with DSL? Or maybe even dialup.

Also, if you don't mind local carriers, you can get some very nice Sprint/Verizon smartphones at pretty low prices, ones that have been ESN banned from their original carriers because the original owner didn't pay the bill. Depending on the phone, it's fairly trivial to flash over as well, I got a Droid Incredible in…

@Homer Berkowitz: Didn't Konami do that in the NES days because of Nintendo's restrictions on the number of games that could be released in a year?

@Neepawa: Technically yes, especially if you said yes to accepting a required security policy. I really wouldn't worry about that ever happening though, considering that it's Google, and there haven't been any issues with Android and stuff like that.

@quasistellar: It's the blatant cheesiness of it all.

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@QLAB: I've got a Hero CDMA, was getting sort of fond of Sense considering they just released a rom that actually works. Going to try Cyanogenmod again, with 6.1 rc1 instead of the 6.0 final.

How about some Eclair support?

@boslok: Just let it beep.

@Robotronic: The people overseas probably know it better than actual Americans. #kiddingbutstill

@JBaker1225: Dang it, chuuchdizzle beat me to it.

I'm hoping its ridiculously unreliable.

@Ryan_Long: I remember that the letter sent out by apple mentioned that it has to be a minimum length in order to apply, I think 2:30, but I could be wrong.