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Why has nobody mentioned the fact that this is not being sold in cooperation with telcos? This is the only interesting thing about this announcement to me, and
by technomancy 17y ago
Why has nobody mentioned the fact that this is not being sold in cooperation with telcos? This is the only interesting thing about this announcement to me, and is very exciting. Telco (and Apple) meddling has kept the entire market very distasteful to me, so seeing a chink in the oligopoly's armour is a ray of hope.
- dschobel 17y agoDo the carriers care? Google will still need a carrier and the carriers only care about having the "cool new phone" to the extent that it gets consumers to sign contracts with them. Why should they care if the phone comes from HTC or Google?
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- the_real_r2d2 17y agoWell carriers do not like Google too much. Remember the pushing of Google for open access in wireless networks?
- eli 17y agoIndeed, as others pointed out, you can already buy an unlocked phone from google -- the "Android Developer Phone 1" is $400.