I won't restate all my reasons for supporting the modding, hacking, jailbreaking, and so on of your legally-owned products here — if you're interested in a user's manifesto, read this — but suffice it to say that deliberately bricking a phone if the user fiddles with it does not fall under the "reasonable" category of precautions taken by manufacturers.
In fairness, it was a brick of a phone, and it suffered from more than its fair share of quality control issues.
That brick of a phone saved me and, it's important to note, the phone itself was so old even then that even my little assailants didn't want to steal it.
Across the pond, Donald Trump, who is so 80s that he should still be carrying a brick mobile phone a la Michael Douglas in Wall Street and wearing a double-breasted suit, is unavoidable.
Thing is, though, you're not actually giving up your iPhone or Android for this "phone": In fact, the 1980's Brick Phone is not a "phone" at all, as it can't really make or receive phone calls without being connected to another device.
At that point, the iPhone might as well have been a brick phone.
I was the last to get an email account in the late 1990s, the last to indulge in online shopping and I still sport a brick of a mobile phone rather than a flash Android or iPhone (this last because one of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper).
She points to the relatively slow adoption of mobile phones, which took ten years to progress from the size of a brick to a flip phone.
They just released a Miami Vice set that includes a drug plane, 80s "brick" phone, and a Pyrex container, amongst other items.
Sell!" into a massive brick phone.
Installing this could completely brick your phone, so proceed with a big bag of caution.
