On 6 November 2011 15:33, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote: ... > You can update the firmware yourselves - go the custom ROM > way. (errr... I am afraid the carriers' representatives may do > something to me for advising this). :-D > > You can continue to be with the existing carrier. > > Look around. If all else fails, ask google - the search engine; not > the customer support. (what a paradox). There are ways to root and > de-root the phone for warranty purposes.
We can probably all do things to get our own phones to work - but what is needed is that if *any* person buys *any* Android phone in India it "just works" with Indic scripts (even if the UI is not localized into all regional languages) I don't think it is an unreasonable expectation for consumers in these countries when they shell out a lot of money for the latest phone to be able to send and receive messages in their script. . Another problem is that reviews of phones, even those published or broadcast in India, rarely mention whether the phone supports Indic scripts - so it is difficult for a consumer to take this into account when deciding which phone to buy. A lot of consumers just expect it to be there, since even much cheaper phones have offered this for years,. I hope the latest Windows 7 phones don't have this limitation when we start to see them. - C
