[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Obsidian...:
Can still go Up North without staying on I75 Oh smart one and were you really just trying to call me out on Michigan lingo? Like I said I have 4g from here to my cabin and full bars when I get there.

Oh and how a device gets unlocked has everything to do with the manufacturer. Read below since you don't get how the manufacturer plays a role.

http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html?m=1

Anyway if this new Qualcomm lock method truly locks everyone out and they bring it over to the Note 3 (with a Qualcomm chip/modem) the Note 3 is dead in the water before release.

I honestly don't see vzw going full lte or releasing an lte only device anytime soon. As so many people keep pointing out big red's network is not even close to being near full 4g in the outskirts. So as great as it is here you can't just drop the whole supportive cdma network.

You are right that they don't want to pay Qualcomm for the cdma licenses but they also aren't going to switch their whole base network to gsm either so they're in it for the long haul.

We all wish that VZW didn't have by far and wide the best network. We also all wish their prices weren't the highest & their data plans the lowest. But all that along with devices being even more locked up from here on out is just a fact of life.

The biggest worry for a lot of people is the lack of importance some of my generation (X) and all of the ME/Right Now generation puts on security. Clearly sharing too much personal info with work and especially the other way around. They also don't want their companies info put on devices that can be easily broken into or edited to attack their internal network once it's brought into the building. VZW is just playing right into the worries of the older generations and explaining how insecure an unlocked device is. So no they don't care about having a following of geeks because they'll actually lose large 1000+ device contracts not gain the small amount of people that want to delete all their software, make unstable devices that get returned.

Trust me that if your logic worked they'd be using it

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First off belovedson don't go off calling people you don't even know trolls. Samuri was the only reason 95% of the Bionic community could update their phones from leak to leak and back to the gb ota so that they could take the official ics ota once it got released. He's spent countless nights helping people get out of bricks or back on the ota path when it was their own stupidity and impatience that caused the problem in the first place.

Sam was just cranking me with the fact that he has 4g everywhere he goes because we're boys. Clearly he wasn't putting it out there as a statement to troll.

Anyway like I said drop the all knowing mentality and make sure you know who the person is before you call them out on anything. Especially for being a troll. Prove them wrong with facts or holes in their theory but don't take personal jabs at their character. The truth is, you just don't know them well enough.

Etched in blood with the Katana I stole from Samuri