Thread: What would you pay for an unlocked N900?
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2009-08-29 , 01:11
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
What is the point of buying an unlocked phone atleast in the US since the n900 would not work with any other 3G other than t-mobile. It is better to switch and get it at a lower price rather than buy it unlocked and use it only for edge.
I am a T-mobile US customer, and I would still rather buy an unlocked version of this phone (assuming that it would have the AWS 1700 band of course) rather than a T-mobile subsidized version. Simply put, US carriers are among the worst offenders in stripping their subsidized phones of functionality. Who knows if T-mo will insist on disabling tethering, Skype, and so forth. T-mobile has a significant hand in the firmware updates pushed to their subsidized Android phones. I'd rather not see that same model applied to the N900.

For these reasons, I'd rather spend more money to get an unlocked device that works as the developers intended. A subsidized price is not worth it to me if it means that I am getting a compromised device.
Last edited by klinglerware; 2009-08-29 at 01:44.
 

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