Thread: AT&T just bought T Mobile USA for 36 billion ! what do you think it means to us that use tmo??
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TheLongshot is offline TheLongshot
2011-04-01 , 20:01
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Just curious, but are there any cell phones that have modular radios?

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
But the singular path that Nokia went down was an all-in bet with the fourth largest US carrier, a smaller screen (I hated that decision on announcement) and then they make it to where you had to either go to their website to purchase, horrible experience or go to one of their two Nokia flagship stores - which got closed down, and they didn't even try to really improve their position in the market or get the word out that they had a phone that offered freedom.
More like the only choice, more than likely. Fact is, T-Mobile is probably the most tolerant carrier of unlocked phones. Even so, just about all the phone carriers want control over the handset, which is kinda the antithesis of Maemo. As others have said, the telecommunications industry sucks in the US, and the Europeans would have a hard time playing the US game. (As the sale of T-Mobile shows.)

As for getting it, I bought mine off of Amazon. It wasn't that hard.

But the end results are the same. Nokia is in a pickle. Let's see what decision they pick next and see how well it plays out.
Nokia was in a pickle long before the N900, nor was the N900 supposed to get them out of it. For example, letting Symbian get old and decrepid and having no strong plan to find a replacement.

People may hate that they tried to retrofit Maemo as a phone OS and the deal to combine with Moblin, but the silver lining is that it might be a better fate for the OS overall. Fact is, I don't know if I see the tablet efforts being more than just a sideline for Nokia. A pet project to see what they could do in that area, with little to show for it corporate-wise. Personally, I wasn't interested until they did release it in phone form.
 

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