[HTC One X] _delice_doluca_:
that's more like it.. having no need for a computer is a good option. it's like your phone has its own ecosystem.

about the lawsuit i am so confused i guess and i would like to get you confused too :D

when apple was sued the judge has decided that "

the hardware was belong to the apple but the software and the right for customising it was belong to the customer because apple has claimed no price specifically for iOS and it is not being sold seperately

" this is the key point i think..

since there is no way to mess with the hardware on apple devices they can't tell your warranty is void just because you have jailbreaked your device when -say- there is a yellow spot on the screen.

basicly, unless you install a paid app for free or unlock a simlocked iphone through jailbreak you are ok to go..

on the android side you can change the cpu, the gpu and the I/O speeds and somehow the material quality is -nearly- always below the iphone/ipads so your battery which is already running close to the operating enviroment limits can overheat or your screen melt down or burn your SD card or any other -mostly heat related- problems may occur, or they say so...

so i guess trying to prevent us from changing the kernels is a good thing in these circumstances. samsung is also trying to do the same thing with the famous triangle..

they also should let everyone to customise the ROMs and make other optimisations and also flash new ROMs (like cyanogenmod) without risking the drivers by providing unlocked bootloaders out of the box without threatening the customers with their warranty..

however (this is where i prove i am wrong with my above sentence about kernels) we all know that on our computers, phones, tablets, etc.. there are pysical protections to prevent us from litterally burning them.. take one x; you can't charge the phone when the battery is too hot.. it secures itself... so kernels are safe to be flashed? am i wrong? if something goes wrong the software is completely re-neweable isn't it? so it is not that easy to kill the phone..

or could you litteraly burn a CPU of a computer by overclocking it? you probably end up getting resets repeatedly at worse scenerio.. so maybe you can shorten your devices life but you can NOT kill it..

besides; if a devices -let's say- screen dies because of overheating these pysical limits should be set more correctly.. no one should blame the overclocker here since he is just unleashing the potential given by the manifacturer.. or there should be an electrical limit on the speaker so it should last without being blown away by software.. no extra energy no exceeding the operating limits. it is that simple

and lets be honest here; android is all free OS.. when a company decides to use it and make phones/tablets they know there is always a great potential to customise, optimise even re-make it by developers.. so they honestly know; above-average users (who are most of the android users) would be tempted by its sofware and hardware.. this is why we care about chipsets used in our devices and this is how they make their ads.. like nvidia, they say they have the most special games, the best ones but when we buy their devices they say if we try to eliminate the lags on their "supposed-to-run-without-lag" games our devices are out of warranty.. they know we will be temped by the hardware and want to change the software and secretly they give the key and use this temptation while selling (no one would choose android as their OS and also tell they release their device to stay untouched and used for routine purposes, that would be a lie) the device but when something is wrong with it and we need manifacturer to stand for its device no one is here.. so either they must clearly claim that their device is only for every-day usage without permission to change anything which is put by the manifacturer on it and have to want us to accept these terms "before" buying it or they accept by using android as their OS and letting hardware controlled by it (they do NOt make CPU speeds determined by any hardware but the android itself) they "accept" they are using the temptation of the open source and the flexibilty of the devices both on hardware and the software side to sell the devices (a good iphone user knows there is no way of changing the I/O method or OCing but even a galaxy mini user would want OC or ext4 support and could buy this phone for the possibility)..

so, locking it should not be covered with the excuse of need for the warranty.. if they trust their product and their pre-defined production limits (like the battery running temps or the energy supplies for the CPU etc.) every device should be safe regardless of custom software and only thing to worry for everyone should be production mistakes which must be under %5.. am i wrong?

and one more thing, again take galaxy s2, galaxy note and one x.. remember how samsung has failed to make a secure kernel for galaxy devices on ics and they ended up superbricked and notice how HTC is unable to make a phone which can not be used while being charged without getting too hot.. so can you actually believe developers could make things worse? i do not (and i believe if a judge was listening to these last words he/she would also decide the manifacturers were a lot bigger risk to the devices then developers)

this is what i believe.. if they do not trust their products then they have to remove every possibility to change the hardware customisations.. they can not both give us the possibility and run away and hide behind the S-OFF or triange counter not to give our warranty when the device is broken because of their product could not take it..