[TriLUG] sideload Republic Wireless?

David Brain dbrain at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 19:47:58 EST 2012


Yes, I believe it is integrated more deeply than a typical app, essentially
part of the base OS load on the phone.  A similar situation exists with the
T-Mobile Wifi calling app - hence it not being available on the Nexus 4.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a little more to it that a typical app. I think they do some lower
> level integration to make the voip work decently plus to route calls on
> wifi when available. Didn't see anything on their website about how to do
> it and did see something in the past about the carriers will not let them.
> (large carriers dictate what model phones etc can be sold to smaller
> concerns from what my friend who was "in the biz" told me.)
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>
> > A lot of these terms come from the 15 year old kids that find exploits
> and
> > circumvent the app stores.
> >
> > Also, most smartphone users are completely unaware of security issues
> that
> > are specific to how software is installed on mobile devices. It is almost
> > depressing how bad the situation is: most people say they don't trust
> > Google/Apple (and they should not), yet they will happily download the
> > latest jailbreak/root code from some guy in Bulgaria (chosen randomly),
> > over HTTP, when no source code is available.
> >
> > Igor
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