Google is also not really a good retailer. They have no experience at all with directly selling stuff, and I think they messed it up. But I can directly buy ph

Google is also not really a good retailer. They have no experience at all with directly selling stuff, and I think they messed it up. But I can directly buy phones from HTC or Samsung here (well, of course through retailers), and some people do. Electronics stores offer a big selection of unlocked smartphones (I got mine through http://www.amazon.de/ http://www.amazon.de/). I always get a bit pissed when people from the USA ignore that the rest of the world is not just inhabited by dragons.