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Originally Posted by gnugu
Actually, what I always dreamed about is starting to happen!
I want to be able to buy a naked HW independent of any carrier!
I understand that some phones will and some will not work up here, but it is up to me to educate myself enough to buy the correct HW.
As mjschmidt says - these are little computers so let's buy them just as we buy computers.
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With all due respect, that doesn't make any sense.
We have always had the option of purchasing any phone for any carrier in Canada (as long as it is compatible with the carriers signal format).
I can only speak for myself but I prefer to purchase a phone with a plan because I am not interested in paying $600.00 for my smartphone. The lease plan (essentially what it is) makes it easy for most people to obtain this technology.
As I mentioned before, Google really messed up! They are the ones that allowed the hardware manufacturers and carriers dictate what modifications could be done to the phones, and whether or not to allow OTA OS updates. If they followed the iPhone model, we would be in this messed up situation where your Android is destined to become outdated before it should. Even if we do receive the [likely] one-time OS 2.x update, it doesn't change anything. Meanwhile, owners of 2 year old iPhones, still receive the latest OS and will continue to enjoy updates (OTA or over the desktop) until the hardware actually becomes outdated.
It is because of this sad state of affairs, that I will never buy another Android, until they solve all these issues (but it is very likely that Apple will always be a generation ahead).