When I bought my HTC One X, the selling point was that I didn’t need to root it because tethering was enabled. That really was the selling point for me. I tried it out at the store, saw I could hook other devices up just fine, bought it and went home happier ‘n a pig in shit. Tethering was really the only main feature I rooted / hacked my previous phone to death over and over 3G, I could remote control computers just fine. 4G was even better (I’m getting 10mbps up and down over 4g).
Then AT&T pushed out updates. Since I hadn’t rooted my phone, I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to lose anything.
Except, apparently… tethering.
AT&T turned it off. They turned off the one thing that I bought the phone for without telling me. And nobody seems to be able to find a way to root 2.20 so I’m now stuck without what I purchased.
And I’m left honestly wondering if new/improved “phones” retain making and receiving telephone calls as part of their function. Is that obsolete, and nobody told me? Is there some other gadget that does that now? Because I found that useful, back in the Olden Days.
I am adrift in a strange new world.
Indeed… I have that conversation once in a while with my computer expert friend. He’s a great guy, but he speaks mostly geek, and I don’t always translate well. When I ask what the heck he’s talking about, he usually just smiles – and then goes right on speaking geek until I threaten to stop feeding him anything when he comes. That usually fixes it… until next time. LOL
> And I’m left honestly wondering if new/improved “phones” retain making and receiving telephone calls as part of their function
Yeah, they do that too… they are backwards compatible with us old geezers 🙂
A smartphone is actually not a “phone” as such; it is a computer in your pocket that also can call people. 😉