Comment on FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase
Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 months agoPhones are also small computers, and while its wireless chipset may only be compatible with certain carriers, that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be allowed to install whatever I want on it.
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Try a Galaxy S5…
Antennas are proprietary to different networks.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The antenna isn’t tied to the chipset? TIL
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, I don’t think there are many models of phones with proprietary antennas, but there are, or at least were a couple models.