I don't know why the operaters do this, the main culprits are Orange and Vodaphone and they do this with every handset (Voda even cripple you using your own mp3s as ringtones on some handsets with the poor excuse of drm).
It isn't a shock that they have blocked the voip functionality. The handset makers should just not allow the operaters to put their own software on the handsets they make.
Maybe then we'd be able to get handsets that aren't full of irritating coloured software and be able to use the handset the way it was intended!
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I don't know why the operaters do this, the main culprits are Orange and Vodaphone and they do this with every handset (Voda even cripple you using your own mp3s as ringtones on some handsets with the poor excuse of drm).
It isn't a shock that they have blocked the voip functionality. The handset makers should just not allow the operaters to put their own software on the handsets they make.
Maybe then we'd be able to get handsets that aren't full of irritating coloured software and be able to use the handset the way it was intended!