Watch Out!
Paramount might feel the need to sue over your unlicensed use of their intellectual property.
So, was torturing my neighbors kid's girlfriend about her little tirade about her pony being moved, and felt the need to find the theme song for "My Little Pony" and text it to her.
It was a case in Dover, PA.
The "Intelligent Design" folks had their collective asses kicked.
The phone had virtually no in-store presence, and the staff at the two (corporate) T-Mobile stores I tried basically said that since they don't have one to show and cannot give accurate advice on it, there was no reason for anyone to buy one.
Also, apart from the Blackberries they sell and a few other random (non-smart) phones, none of them offer UMA, which is a deal-breaker for me. Without the UMA option, my signal strength in the two places I use it most (at home and at work) is essentially zero. So, I'm a long-time (going on 10 years now) T-Mobile customer (and was a VoiceStream one before Deutche Telecom bought them and renamed them T-Mobile) kept in place by "Golden Handcuffs", namely a plan they do not offer anyone but that is too good to pass up.. I pay $45/month for 1000 Minutes/Unlimited Texts/Unlimited Data (Via the Blackberry data plan) and free nights and weekends.
But wait, isn't the Earth only 6000 years old?
Stage a coo? As in a pigeon call?
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications) made it legally "ok" for them to do so. If the rationale behind the examination was for a disciplinary or other reasons, the search would not have been reasonable.
That said, I read the entire opinion, and there is a nuance in what was decided that seems to have been overlooked here, at least thus far.
In the case in question, the police officer named in the suit was using his work-issue pager to send personal messages, but the initial inquiry was a result of the good-faith request of the police chief to check into whether the issue was that the number of characters per month (set at 25,000) that had been contracted with Arch Wireless was sufficient to the task. Only upon examination of the details of those transmissions did the personal nature of them come into focus.
If I read the opinion correctly, the fact that the messages were examined for a non-disciplinary reason (in this case, to ascertain if the upper limit on characters sent per month was sufficient to encompass all of the required official communications.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.