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Old 06-19-2009, 05:17 PM
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Re: Are forced Firmware updates over the air illegal?

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Originally Posted by caleb02 View Post
no if you read the article link palm makes it mandatory that you do the update within 7 days. so the update installs even if you dont want it.... the issue is should the update fail and you need the phone for 911 and it is bricked because of a failed update will palm be held responsible should something happen to you
No. They would only be liable for making your phone a brick. The funny thing is, it is not mandatory that we own a phone, so 911 has nothing to do with if the phone works or not. The phones are not 100% guaranteed to be able to call 911 at any given time, if that is YOUR reason for owning a cell phone, you might want to consider carrying a couple of phones on you, just in case.

Any number of things could fail with your cell phone as someone else stated.

Or, are you looking for a reason to deny Palm their control over your phone? That is an easy one... Don't buy it!