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Originally Posted by dave01978
Umm i think its funny you spend at least $400 from verizon for 2 phones, and dont want to spend 6 bucks or so to unlock it? Why should they do all this work and, I guess we all should be glad they are letting the community get 1 for free.
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Read through this thread, many are not getting their "1 for free"... This is a big FAIL for these guys from beginning to end.
I myself got my TP2 with 6.5 already on it direct from US Cellular for $0. So honestly NO, it's not worth it to me to use up one freebie as a test on a phone I'll likely have no more than a week, then if I like the results, pay $6 to use it once on a phone I hope to have till something that suits my needs better arrives to market (which could be a couple years since the TP2 fits my needs perfectly out of the box).
On top of that, when you consider their methods of preventing second usage collects data they have no business collecting and storing for ANY reason, it just seems like an overall bad idea to take a great phone and do something that will only make it marginally better than what can be done with basic cab installs and regedits.
I would think they did it for their own personal use and then decided to be part of a community and share it. Just like all the other contributors do. Donations are nice, but these guys set out from day one to turn a profit with their one phone per person\control freak rule, coupled with the deletion of possible workarounds; that's a bit more than a donation request... As the GodFather would say "it's an offer ya can't refuse".
It's funny they wanna put rules on something that is technically breaking the rules anyway.