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To: Mr. Blonde
The major software manufacturers and American carriers have all agreed to Google’s demand that phones get software updates for 18 months.

That's good, although it's non-binding and it doesn't help me. Luckily I'm a geek so I can handle rooting it and flashing new ROM. Most others are screwed.

BTW, why do we call it ROM? It's not read-only, since we can easily write to it.

168 posted on 06/09/2011 7:32:59 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
BTW, why do we call it ROM? It's not read-only, since we can easily write to it.

It's read-only in the normal functioning of the device. Nothing gets written to ROM when you're using the phone. Almost nothing very complicated uses hard-coded ROMs any more; even wireless routers and cable modems use flashable firmware these days.

182 posted on 06/09/2011 11:47:25 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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