…to bloat up a perfectly good phone. AT&T announced that they are finally going to be selling the Nokia E71x, their locked down version of the Nokia E71. The good thing about this is that it’s a S60 device on a major US carrier, which doesn’t seem to happen much. The bad thing about this is that when a carrier (at least in the US) gets a hold of a sleek new device that runs great, they love to add all of their extra crap to slow the device down and try to persuade users to buy their Java games and apps through their “app store”.
I absolutely hate this practice and believe that when you first boot the phone up, you should have an opt-out choice. Most of the stuff that may be useful is available to the general public anyway, so it’s not like the carriers are doing anything but stealing device memory (which you most likely cannot reclaim) and infecting your phone with trial-ware and other crap that you will never need.
What else was removed?