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Sometimes they have more features for cheaper - dual SIM and NFC come to mind. US phones are very crippled in general.
by pishpash 9y ago
Sometimes they have more features for cheaper - dual SIM and NFC come to mind. US phones are very crippled in general.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoWhat US phones don’t come with NFC these days? Dual sim is a niche feature that doesn’t make sense in the states.
- jhoechtl 9y agoA US citizen consultant working for weeks abroad, buying a local sim card. That doesn't make sense to you? Niche maybe, but certainly useful enough to be included.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI worked abroad for 12 years, 10 even in China where dual sims are even more common. Even my Chinese colleagues would often use an iPhone and just switch the SIM in the airplane, it isn’t that hard. Dual sims are actually meant for (a) people with a personal and business SIM or (b) people cheating on their wife (so an official SIM and a SIM for the xiaosan(s)). Both very niche even in China. Dual SIM simply isn’t really a feature that would drive phone sales in the states.
- opencl 9y agoThe Moto G5+ doesn't have NFC if you buy it in the US. It has NFC if you buy it anywhere else in the world. But there are lots of phones in the US market with no NFC: BLU Grand M2, Zenfone 4 Max, LG K3, etc.
- londons_explore 9y agoPut a european sim card in, and support will come back... You don't even have to reboot! It's simply a software lock.
- londons_explore 9y agoNFC has various patents. The Moto E4 Plus for example will only activate it's NFC if you put a sim card from one of the big european carriers. If you put in a sim card from a small carrier or a USA carrier, suddenly all mention of NFC vanishes from all menus.