Move Over HTC and Samsung, Sony May Be the New Power-User Favorite

Way back in the Windows Mobile days, the sweetheart devices were made by HTC. Power users could do so much with devices made by HTC. Even today, the most-hackable, least brickable device is arguably the HTC HD2. Over time, HTC started to lose that crown and, for a while, Samsung picked it up and ran with it. Why is the crown so important? Sure, we’d all like a phone that we can hack, but some will downplay the ability to do so and say “hack friendlyness” shouldn’t be a measure of a device’s appeal. Maybe they’re right in that regard. Unfortunately (or ...

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