what does it mean to 'brick' a phone?

[oneSLOWex]

I'm not trying to be an asshat here, I promise, but what software could possibly be worth messing up your new iPhone? I hear about this stuff happening alot, do people really need/want that much more than the iPhone has to offer?

its small things that you cant do unless you change the OS....which to me is FAR from worth it...but whatever.

i dont know about with the iphone, but i know for us android users, alot of people who dont know what there doing, brick there phones tryin to get Hero or other roms installed.

I mean really....what else can you do by messing with the phones OS that you couldn't do w/o it? WiFi tethering? Extra screens? Its not worth the risk or the trouble for me. I have one of those mini laptops that I can carry around with me if I need something that bad.

[1CleanEg]

its small things that you cant do unless you change the OS....which to me is FAR from worth it...but whatever.

I mean really....what else can you do by messing with the phones OS that you couldn't do w/o it? WiFi tethering? Extra screens? Its not worth the risk or the trouble for me. I have one of those mini laptops that I can carry around with me if I need something that bad.

Well its a lot different for android, Most of these roms, are designed to free up alot of memory on the phone, and offer alot of extra features from the new OS that arent possible on the regular phone. Also allow more customization and allow u to get certain apps only available for that rom, different themes, etc. But im with u on this, i havent done it b/c i dont even want to chance bricking my g1 even with its older OS

[oneSLOWex]

Well its a lot different for android, Most of these roms, are designed to free up alot of memory on the phone, and offer alot of extra features from the new OS that arent possible on the regular phone. Also allow more customization and allow u to get certain apps only available for that rom, different themes, etc. But im with u on this, i havent done it b/c i dont even want to chance bricking my g1 even with its older OS

Im using a Droid...16gb factory SD card FTW. Dont have to worry about memory and the phone is fast enough.