October 2, 2006

Updates Freeze Phones

by Piers Fawkes

Engadget carries a piece on the how Sprint reportedly froze a every single Fusic phone when they tried to update the phones’ software with an update over the airwaves. Engadget says:

It seems the firmware update, pushed just a couple days ago to customers’ handsets, quickly and efficiently bricked each and every one of them. The whole situation is a full order of magnitude more frightening than Nokia’s similar experience with the E70, seeing how Nokia’s update was optional and at least required the user to manually perform the upgrade.

Sprint fumbles, fries Fusics with faulty firmware - Engadget

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