This SUCKS!

[dmodert66]

I don't think anyone else mentioned it in this thread, but if your upgrade date is before Jan 1st, 2011, you can upgrade to the Droid X now.

As others have stated, I don't know that I would suggest that, but just wanted to throw the info out there...

 

[G.Armour]

Yep, I'm staying with my original Droid till something blows me away.

 

[mplevy]

Sooper, you mention the possibility of Verizon being upset that people were rooting for Wifi tether and were losing money by not being able to sell the service. It's hard for them to lose money on a service they don't sell in the first place. They don't even offer tethering as a feature on the Droid AT ALL.

 

[G.Armour]

Sooper, you mention the possibility of Verizon being upset that people were rooting for Wifi tether and were losing money by not being able to sell the service. It's hard for them to lose money on a service they don't sell in the first place. They don't even offer tethering as a feature on the Droid AT ALL.

But they do on all the other top end devices, and that's the point.

 

[djkeller3]

Ok, I'll veer off-topic to through in my two pennies.

I agree that the Droid is probably the last Verizon phone that'll be so completely open source. They wanna milk every customer of every last dollar they have, period. I have to fight almost every bill b/c of phantom charges and hidden fees. The fact that they're offering this whole mobile hotspot thing is just a way of capitalizing one what third-party devs have already figured out: tethering.

Now, are they going to throw away every Droid they have in stock to ensure that they completely eliminate this threat? No way. They're gonna sell them and make every last dollar they can off of it. The root community is such a small percentage of mobile users; we're not big enough of a threat for them to squander those sales. Besides, they know the majority of people will move on to the next big thing, regardless. This is a problem that'll work itself out, to them.

Very well stated, Yankee. Since rooting my Droid, I have been so AMAZED by the difference in performance - like it's an entirely different phone - that I bring up the subject of rooting in every group setting I'm apart of. Last night, I was in a group of 40 people and the subject of smartphones came up and I eventually had 4 or 5 people testing out my Droid and not believing how fast it was. Then... a guy walks up and asks me, "Did you root?", and I told him I did and he said, "I did too, and I need to talk to you!".

Not counting myself, that is 2.5% of the people there being rooted. But when you factor in all the other people I've associated with who didn't know what the heck I was talking about, it is probably in the range of 1%, and that's about what we've been thinking represents the actual root community. In fact, that may be even a little high.

I agree that we are so small in numbers that we're not even a blip on Verizon's radar. However, that won't be enough to stop them from putting enfuse on their smartphones, like Droid X, to make it that much harder to root.

 

[The_Chief]

If ANYBODY can hack the Dx it's our devs. Maybe Pete can create a bugless beast that ghosts the Dx's bootloader code and find a way to put a recovery console on it while the Dx still THINKS it's stock just a thought, but I bet he's working on it right now