Andriod not the only open source mobile os out there now

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Caveat #1:  Its locked to AT&T - The iPhone is locked down to one
>> carrier, and a mediocre one at best.
>
> Only in your country. Here they come from 2 or 3 networks and in
> France & Germany I believe you can buy them unlocked, as that option
> is required by law.
>
> Do not mistake a local peculiarity of your market for an attribute of
> the device.
>
> AT&T don't even operate here. The rest of the world has a grown-up
> cell network based on GSM; only the USA is a backwater with a
> Balkanised network of incompatible vendor-locked CDMA regions.
>

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the United States of Wall Street!!!

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