That's going to be a HUGE problem for consumers. We've got the idiots in there now at AT&T who think that consumers want THEIR version of the E71. I bet you anything that if you showed a prospective customer at an AT&T store both the E71x and E71 and told them what separated them, they would choose the E71 every time assuming they were both offered and priced the same. When is AT&T going to get it?? I want the phones that Nokia releases to everyone else except the US carriers; the phones that Nokia designed for us. We want Nokia's E71 NOT yours AT&T. I refuse to buy another phone from you because you fail to offer the things I want. The day AT&T offers an E72 with everything the retail package includes, without touching the hardware or software of the device, is the day I will walk into one of your stores with my credit card in hand and happily renew my contract and pick one up. Here's a question, why on earth would AT&T have Nokia design a new phone, called the Thresher, when they could simply pick up the beautiful 6600 Slide. But no, you can't do that AT&T, can you? Oh, and designing phones as goofy as the Mako, isn't going to get Nokia that #1 spot, no matter how good their services are. Phones first, then services.
Have to agree with you there. I've used carrier phones and their unlocked versions, and will NEVER buy a carrier branded phone again. They are so incredibly worse than the unbranded unlocked versions it's amazing. My unlocked E71-2 has better battery life, stability, easier firmware upgrades, no restrictions on adding software, all the hardware actually works (yes, Verizon and to a lesser extent AT&T both deliberately cripple the hardware so you have to subscribe to their non voice services, GPS for example, and several bluetooth profiles that allow file exchange, stereo bluetooth and whatnot) than AT&T's E71x, it's flat no contest. Carrier branded and firmware phones are *horrible* compared to unlocked phones.
Too bad Americans are so clueless when it comes to what really can be offered when their phones aren't ruled by evil wireless corporate overlords who only care about how much they can fleece the public for.
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That's going to be a HUGE problem for consumers. We've got the idiots in there now at AT&T who think that consumers want THEIR version of the E71. I bet you anything that if you showed a prospective customer at an AT&T store both the E71x and E71 and told them what separated them, they would choose the E71 every time assuming they were both offered and priced the same. When is AT&T going to get it?? I want the phones that Nokia releases to everyone else except the US carriers; the phones that Nokia designed for us. We want Nokia's E71 NOT yours AT&T. I refuse to buy another phone from you because you fail to offer the things I want. The day AT&T offers an E72 with everything the retail package includes, without touching the hardware or software of the device, is the day I will walk into one of your stores with my credit card in hand and happily renew my contract and pick one up. Here's a question, why on earth would AT&T have Nokia design a new phone, called the Thresher, when they could simply pick up the beautiful 6600 Slide. But no, you can't do that AT&T, can you? Oh, and designing phones as goofy as the Mako, isn't going to get Nokia that #1 spot, no matter how good their services are. Phones first, then services.
Have to agree with you there. I've used carrier phones and their unlocked versions, and will NEVER buy a carrier branded phone again. They are so incredibly worse than the unbranded unlocked versions it's amazing. My unlocked E71-2 has better battery life, stability, easier firmware upgrades, no restrictions on adding software, all the hardware actually works (yes, Verizon and to a lesser extent AT&T both deliberately cripple the hardware so you have to subscribe to their non voice services, GPS for example, and several bluetooth profiles that allow file exchange, stereo bluetooth and whatnot) than AT&T's E71x, it's flat no contest. Carrier branded and firmware phones are *horrible* compared to unlocked phones.
Too bad Americans are so clueless when it comes to what really can be offered when their phones aren't ruled by evil wireless corporate overlords who only care about how much they can fleece the public for.