Android phones

[Alon Barzilai]

> So if you buy a phone abroad, I'd strongly suggest you test it right 
> there, using WiFi, just surfing to google.co.il or some such and 
> seeing whether you get Hebrew fonts at all. If not, then you need to 
> consider whether you want to root the phone and lose your warranty.
I am not sure you loose you warranty when you root the phone.
there are at least 2 ways to unlock the phone:
1) unlock the the bootloader and then install the root app. but for me ( 
I have nexus s) it is reversible. you can lock it later. a
2) install some root application ( available at least in galaxy s, not 
for nexus s) you can always uninstall it later.

I had hebrew fonts preinstalled. the problem I see is BiDi.
some applications work, some show hebrew in reverse. and some partially.
for example in gmail app, all the mail subjects are reversed. the mail 
body is OK.

I found in forums a way to replace half (or all) OS files and fix the 
problem in gmail and some other apps, but this does not fix all the apps.

Alon.