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I had one of those huge grey brick phones in the mid 90s and it was portable enough.

The radio was smaller than a brick phone, with an internal directional antenna and a headset.

The release of the first upgrade, which added copy-and-paste, was anything but smooth, with delays, incompatibilities, and even the occasional bricked phone.

That update trickled out over a period of many months, amid problems with failed installations, bricked phones, and recalcitrant carriers.

Being denied an update because it's not compatible with your phone hardware is frustrating, but understandable-it's better to have no update than a bricked phone.

The update was previously withdrawn for Samsung handsets when it was discovered that the original was failing to install and in some cases even bricking phones.

If you take a Motorola brick phone" - so called because it is a thick, heavy mobile phone - "rewrite the software and use it to control other people's calls.

"If you lose your brick phone, and you call us, the insurer will replace it with the same model or as close to the model as possible," said Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless.

Especially with your supposed experience that you claim was not that great and was 'stuck in limbo', I'd expect you would be pushing for updates on the computer otherwise you would have a bricked phone if it was stuck over the air.

When Apple releases an update users get it when they decided to update, not when the carrier or some OEM decides for them Windows has done a decent job with their black eye coming from bricking phones on the first OTA update.