AT&T won't allow unsigned Android apps on the Dell Aero?

By on Mar 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Rumor March 28, 2010

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According to a circulating rumor, the Dell Aero will follow in the footsteps of the Motorola BACKFLIP by prohibiting the installation of unsigned applications. If this rumor pans out, applications for the Aero can only be purchased and installed through the Android Market. The reason behind this decision was not disclosed but apparently it is a blanket policy that will apply to all Android devices on AT&T. As a result of this decision, the Aero will not have the “With Google” branding that graces many of the Android phones currently on the market. If Google is not the centerpiece of the services on the phone, AT&T may be free to swap out Yahoo for Google and put its custom bloatware software on the Aero as it did on the BACKFLIP. Any Android fans out there ready to organzie a boycott of AT&T?

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  • Robert Najafabadi

    Buying a Nexus One soon

  • tim

    I have to agree abouy the uneducated att reps … generally they try to talk dowm to me ewven when I know more than they do like the other day when one told me you could switch the backflip search to google and I demondtrated that the only way to dearch google is tro open google.com in the browser….morron….

  • Parth

    You mean swap out Google for Yahoo Search….

  • Dan

    Why is AT&T so fund of putting PTT and YellowPages.com bloatware on their phones? The spirit of Android is Open Source, not restriction. They have been drinking too much Apple juice.

  • Fired Moto Exec

    And this is why you get a “Google Experience” phone, so A(pple)-t&t cant fuck with it! Just like how Verizon couldnt screw up the Droid. Funny, lately it seems A(pple)t&t is turning into what Verizon used to be and Verizon is turning into what Att used to be. Less control for one and more control for the other. Too bad for all you A(pple)t&t customers.

    • the user

      Or just ROOT your phone. no way their shit will stay on the phone. if the hardware is awesome, i’ll cop it, root it, and do what i want to do.

      • Coop

        Can you or anyone else give me some info on how to ROOT a phone because I want this Dell but none of that AT&T junk.

  • kjn

    As long as AT&T has an exclusive contract with Apple, they are not going to completely open up Android. I was so hoping to pickup the HTC Desire, but I am not too sure now :(

  • http://www.twitter.com/ryannolson Ryan

    Android was designed to be open.. limiting certain aspects of the phone (like unsigned applications) is NOT what should be done in an android phone. Boycott AT&T :]

  • xtraFresh

    I was looking to buy an android phone on my AT&T contract, but not now….I might go over to Sprint, when the new phone comes out.

  • GeneralZod

    This will only hurt the sales numbers for the Android phones on AT&T. They will eventually have to pull the phones off of the shelves due to poor sales. See HTC Pure…..

    I have an unlocked Telus HTC Hero so AT&T, do anything you want to. I don’t care.

  • Jeff

    Hopefully the aero is a better device than the backflop!

  • Matt

    After it became obvious that AT&T just doesn’t grok Android, I purchased an iphone 3GS 16GB, slapped it up on ebay and placed an order for a Nexus One. The 3GS sold for enough to cover the difference. Voila! Leaving AT&T wasn’t really an option, my partner loves his iphone and TMobile reception is non-existent at my office.

  • mi_canuck

    wow… i feel sorry for the at&t customers… what’s the point of having Android if you can’t do much with it… as i keep saying… with all this “locking down”…. at&t = the new vzw…

    • mi_canuck

      thankfully there is rooting… ;)

  • Jim Davis

    I left AT&T for Verizon and the Droid.

  • zipperhead

    i bought a motorola backflip on the assumption that EasyTether was an app you can download…and its not…so fudge att, fudge the backflip, and fudge this new piece of crap..i’m going back to sprint

  • Nick

    AT&T will eventually cross the anti-trust line and grab the attention of the DoJ…

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