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This article is hype. There's nothing overly special about selling an unlocked handset anywhere on planet earth.
by numbchuckskills 17y ago
This article is hype. There's nothing overly special about selling an unlocked handset anywhere on planet earth.
- axod 17y agoThe US is typically quite a few years behind when it comes to things like this, so maybe it's news to some Americans.
- fragmede 17y agoIn the case of the Nexus, the two prices are $529.00 and $179.00, and on the basis of that number alone, I know which I'd rather pay. That article is all hype because the people this is news to, and the target market for a $500 cellphone don't have that big an intersection. I think everyone with a cellphone by now has been exposed to a carrier's store and seen prices for an off-contract phone. Hell, I'm guessing a lot of people have broken phones and been forced to pay off-contract prices - forcing the savvy to at least price out similar phones via alternate channels cough ebay. Pre-iPhone, they'd have a bigger point, but I'd think by now, the consumer smart-phone market (vs big-business' blackberries) is aware of certain things. Am I being too hopeful?