I think that comment "We're pretty sure it wouldn't take more than a couple days on an American carrier for these dudes to decide that the logo's doing more harm than good" is directed at how carrier branding in the US is associated with crippling handset features and loading them with useless bloatware that you can't uninstall. In that sense, putting a carrier logo in an otherwise unbranded device is a downgrade to the device.
“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 think that comment "We're pretty sure it wouldn't take more than a couple days on an American carrier for these dudes to decide that the logo's doing more harm than good" is directed at how carrier branding in the US is associated with crippling handset features and loading them with useless bloatware that you can't uninstall. In that sense, putting a carrier logo in an otherwise unbranded device is a downgrade to the device.