Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by 0815test on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:42PM
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Huawei is not known as an open company, if anything they're the very opposite. They stopped providing unlock ability for their mobile devices some time back, and even before that they were known for having by far the hardest system to work with for phone "modders" - bricked hardware was exceedingly common, and zero outside support was provided. That's incredibly harsh even by CN standards.
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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by mycall on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:30PM
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My Nexus 6P was made by Huawei and was very unlockable. Did I know if Huawei had a backdoor in the radio bin? idk.
Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
by femto on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:53PM
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And now it will be possible to get one's hands on truckloads of potential bricks for almost nothing. If the community makes enough bricks it will eventually learn how not to make bricks. Those lessons can then be applied to other phones with similar architectures.