[Gllug] winphone conversion to android ?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:15 +0000, Geo wrote:
> hi,
>  well my wife decided she was going to buy me a new flashy phone like my 
> brothers android. However not being exactly a tech head she bought a HTC HD2 
> windows phone, thank you but I wanted an android to work with the Robots the 
> children and I are working on.
> 
> Now since you guys & gals use all sorts of Gadgets I figure you are the best 
> people to ask. 
> 
> Is it possible to "convert" this phone to android rather than quietly "lose" 
> it and buy an HTC or something that is android based
> 
> Thank you for potentially keeping me happily married <BG>

You're going to have to risk upsetting your wife, unfortunately.  You
could do the upgrade yourself, but you'd void any warranty and your
network provider would get thoroughly confused.  

Take it back to the shop and explain that not only is it unfit for
purpose, but that they're guilty of deliberately misleading their
customer.  

They'll bluster and whinge (because they stand to lose a juicy bonus for
stitching up yet another M$ customer), but if you suggest that Trading
Standards have already shown interest in your problem, and that you
really wanted a Samsung Galaxy S2 and that was what your wife had
actually asked for, you'll probably be given one just to shut you up!

Phones for You and Carphone Warehouse are getting large numbers of these
Winphone efforts returned because they "don't work properly".  They are
also finding that they can't "upsell" to Apple, either, because the
iPhones can't do Flash and don't do data in marginal signal areas.

C.



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