Why Your Smart Phone Is So Stupid
2009-07-10
Brian Caulfield - 07.08.09, 06:00 PM EDT
That shiny new phone? It's been crippled by your carrier. But is that a bad thing?
BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Whether you own a multimedia-packed inline or an iPhone, the handset you carry around these days is pretty smart. It's not as smart as it could be, however.
That's because if you want to exploit a phone's capabilities in the U.S., you've got to go through the carriers, entrepreneurs say. It's expensive. It's slow. And you have to do it again and again for each carrier.
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