I personally believe that the main reason we don't get phone likes this in the US is because of the carrier subsidy that everyone here seems to think is so important. I have talked to Japanese, Korean, & Chinese businessmen & women as well as Students from all those countries & they all say the same thing on average their phones just COST MORE to begin with & if the carrier doesn't provide a subsidy they STILL are willing to spend the money to acquire the latest & greatest technology. Plus I have worked for a Major Wireless company & the folks that run them here in the US are OLD dinosaurs from the old Bell days. There is very litte young blood at the top & as a result the phone selection of most US carriers is very weak at best & in many cases outdated. You have younger employees in engineering & such but the final say so for what phones come to market STILL comes from the top.
“There's a certain feeling of wading through water with this phone, as every time we went exploring the menus, we were met with a delay long enough to make us doubt our keystrokes registered.”
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I personally believe that the main reason we don't get phone likes this in the US is because of the carrier subsidy that everyone here seems to think is so important. I have talked to Japanese, Korean, & Chinese businessmen & women as well as Students from all those countries & they all say the same thing on average their phones just COST MORE to begin with & if the carrier doesn't provide a subsidy they STILL are willing to spend the money to acquire the latest & greatest technology. Plus I have worked for a Major Wireless company & the folks that run them here in the US are OLD dinosaurs from the old Bell days. There is very litte young blood at the top & as a result the phone selection of most US carriers is very weak at best & in many cases outdated. You have younger employees in engineering & such but the final say so for what phones come to market STILL comes from the top.