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Samantha.
Example: when I bought my N95, it came with V10 firmware. A year later, I bough the same device for my partner. Guess what? V10 firmware at a time when I'd already upgraded mine to the V12 firmware offered by the operator. (I've since debranded it and upgraded again so I'm running the V21 firmware currently).
Because as James has pointed out with his walkabouts, not many people do the firmware upgrades (either due to ignorance or laziness), and they use devices which have bugs in them!
Yes, I would say there should be a point during sales where the phone is made up to date, and any free applications of interest could be installed or something. That would be helpful.
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Samantha.
With the exception of my blackberry (which is a secondary phone I got through T-Mobile), I haven't owned a locked/branded phone in years -- but I pay through the nose to get them (my N95, the N. American version unlocked, was $700.00). It's worth it to me to not have to deal with any carrier lock downs, but still smarts a bit.
I would just love to see subsidies go away entirely -- let people feel the real cost of buying a handset and turn the operators into nothing more than service providers. As the market space for unlocked/unbranded/unsubsidized phones grows, so will the cost for those same phones go down due to simple economics.
-olly
It's terrible that we can't buy phones without all of this additional rubbish on it, unless we go to extreme measures.
Hopefully one day something will happen where subsidised phones that are sold locked, and branded will end. And with any luck the economics of Supply and Demand will make it easier for us all!
Thanks for reading, and commenting!
Samantha.
I want to pay a one off £10 a year and then my Unlimited data (oed update of word now = 200 meg - 1 gig) should kick in where ever I am...
Or at least get a heary discount on charges if you use the home network with the same network abroad ie T-mobile in the UK and T-mobile in the US..
Prices should definitely be made better, and seeing how we're charged say compared to standard broadband, it's ridiculous!
As for the international rates on the same network... Definitely! Seeing as you're not actually using another network, it doesn't make much sense to be charged as if you're forced to use an entirely different network altogether.
Thanks for the comment!
Samantha.
I had hoped that Apple would have lead the way 14 months ago, by selling the iPhone without a carrier tie in. If Jobs had launch the iPhone this way, I believe that sales would be even higher than they are today. The only physical location where you can buy a non-carrier locked phone today is the Sony Style store... And that's just not enough of a game changer to have an impact on US consumers.
As for what I'd like to change, I'd say:
"I'd change the time we have to wait for newer mobile technologies take to reach us. A country of 300 million mobile subscribers and we don't even have 3G yet."
but i wholly agree about operator firmware - it does no one any favours. esp now most phones auto configure on sim insertion. some firmware updates are vital to fix things and they never appear on the branded versions.
mac
They can use the same wording as the banking regulator has insisted on.