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Originally Posted by slaapliedje View Post
Last I had checked (a month ago) it showed they'd give it to you for 20 bucks when renewing a 2 year contract. I was looking 'cause I was thinking of picking up the C7, which they no longer have on their page, but it's at the Walmart near by, and twice I've tried getting it there, but the first it was too busy (during Christmas Shopping) and second time, the normal guy that does phone contracts was gone.

But even at 20 dollars... I didn't want to encourage Elop's insanity, so I would refuse it even for free

I want to see the whole deal between MS and Nokia burn like Elop called MeeGo/Qt/Maemo a burning platform.

Seriously the largest corporate blunder I have seen in my life time. I mean even worse than Commodore's lack of R&D funding and Marketing, and Atari's out right lack of Marketing and gathering developers that killed both of them.

On the other hand I'd like to see Microsoft perish the same way, unfortunately the have tons of Marketing and R&D (even though I have a strong belief that a lot of their developers purposely sabotage Windows because they are pissed off that the managers don't listen to their good ideas, because everyone claims that MS hires the most gifted programmers, yet Windows is a steaming pile of....

Sorry for the rant, it's bed time, and I've had too many random nonsensical issues with Windows lately! For example, using a Mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter going through my Receiver to my TV. The Audio would work during the speaker test, setting it to the 5.1 surround... but NO WHERE else. Including the Windows alert sounds!

How does that make any sense at all?

Anyhow, rant over, again I apologize for going off topic....

slaapliedje
I agree with you, but the T-Mobile at Costco and the T-Mobile at Walmart and the T-Mobile stores are giving them away free with a new 2 year contract from what I've seen, and from my experiences, no one wants them.
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