Sell an unlocked GSM version and I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I'm long done with buying subsidized, crippled devices, freedom is the only choice for me.

In Europe, when you pay for unlimited data, you get UNLIMITED data, we do not have any of that "fair-use" shit that you Americans have to put up with.

Nobody has to "pay too much for text messages and sign their lives away on lengthy contracts". JUST BUY AN UNLOCKED SMARTPHONE!! Of course, the concept of separating the purchase of a mobile device from a subscription to mobile services, and the freedom associated with such a concept, is totally alien to Americans... The American mobile industry is such a joke...

Sell it UNLOCKED (and yes, I know its a CDMA device and would need to be manually activated using its ESN number on another operator) and unsubsidized and UNBRANDED. Then I might look at it for more than 5 seconds, although I'd still never buy a CDMA2000 EV-DO device, which would only ever work on a few operators worldwide, while their are hundreds of GSM operators across the globe. Qualcomm's proprietary CDMA2000 family of technologies are such a joke... get with a real open standard like GSM people!

It's pathetic that one should need to "hack" their phone or take any risk at all to do this. I don't understand how you Americans put up the unfair and anticompetitive tactics practiced by mobile operators in your country... here in Finland, and also in most of Europe, data is data, and the operator doesn't know or care how you use it, wether it be used on a phone or on a computer its all the same. Mobile services are considered necessary utilities here in in Finland, and exist under the same business models as other utilities, like water and electricity providers - they are a dumb pipe and they simply charge by the unit. In America, do your electricity companies charge you more for the electricity used by your refrigerator than that by your computer, lol! I wouldn't be surprised, as Americans are so accustomed to being so royally taken advantage of.

You get what you pay for. Simple as that. If you think its too expensive than you clearly don't value the freedom and versatility of owning an unlocked, non-operator branded mobile device.

Seriously? 5 GB for $30???? I don't understand how you Americans can put up with such unjust mobile rates... here in Finland I get truly unlimited data for 9 Euros (about 13 US dollars) a month from Elisa, one of the 3 GSM networks here. And I not only use it for mobile data use, but as my main internet connection - I don't have a land line based internet connection, only mobile, and regularly pump 100 GB+ of data over my mobile connection each month. Its so funny hearing Americans talk about all the restrictions they have to put up with from the operators there, especially with those insane operators which use CDMA and don't even let there users buy there phones unlocked on the open market... crazy. I'm happy with my factory unlocked iPhone (bought in Belgium, where its illegal to sell contracts or lock phones) and my MacBook Pro, and the unlimited internet that feeds into them!