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‘Junkware’ comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Remember the golden days of personal computing when you’d bring home that expensive wonder box, remove the machine from its Styrofoam swaddling, plug it in, switch it on and — hey! What’s this?

AOL? Quicken SE? A 3-D chess game with a license that expires after a few plays?

Well, customers who bought Motorola’s new Droid X smart phone or Samsung’s Vibrant, both of which launched Thursday, may feel a tinge of deja vu.

The Droid X comes loaded with several nonstandard applications for Google’s Android, most of which cannot be removed.

via ‘Junkware’ comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones | Technology | Los Angeles Times.

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