Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

[Alex Hewitt]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 22:50 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> > I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
> 
>   You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently.  :-/
> 
> -- Ben

My daughter got a verizon cell phone with a camera built in. The first
thing I noticed was that there was no way to get images off the phone
without using their service. The phone supposedly had bluetooth
capability but when I connected it via bluetooth to my Macbook I got a
"service unavailable" when I tried to access the phone's internal memory
to fetch images. Verizon disables (or simply fails to provided) the
bluetooth support needed to get at anything stored on the phone. I
suspect that if you wanted to correct that you'd need to load new
firmware which wouldn't be readily available or wouldn't necessarily
work on the Verizon network.

-Alex

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