No, I did not say I had an old phone. I said this phone is considered an old model overseas. Here, it is the "latest and greatest." I've got a six year old Nokia that does more than this piece of garbage.
Look, the U.S. is way behind in the cell phone market. That is a fact. What is being passed off as new here is outdated compared to what is available overseas.
the U.S. is way behind in the cell phone market. That is a fact.A large part of your beef was with the quality of the service in the US -
- and poor quality should in no way translate into arguemnts that we are 'way behind'. Those are *two* different issues ... (I would point to the availability of the PocketNet browser in the AT&T markets that have been available for several years now and the recent color graphics browser and 144 KBit speeds available from Sprint as arguements against being 'way behind' too.)
As to your contention to wide-spread availability of service in China - I think this too is over-blown. Much hope by a number of manufacturers has been pinned on further contracts for infrastructure equipment for China and a standardization on a single air-interface standard: 1) TDMA/GSM, 2) CDMA2000 or 3) their own home-brewed "Time-Division spread-spectrum format" (I kid you not!) so I therefore conclude that China is not as built-out as you would tend to have us believe ...
I've got a six year old Nokia that does more than this piece of garbage.I doubt that - not at six years old ...