Can we move away from the "My carrier is better than your carrier" playground arguments and back to android discussion.
Thanks, Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 24 Sep 2009, at 19:15, Chris Stratton wrote: > > On Sep 24, 1:38 pm, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> With sprint, user's don't >> have that choice. If they want to switch carriers, they are forced to >> dump in (in the case of an android or other high end smartphone) >> hundreds of dollars to switch carriers. > > lbcoder, to which other US nationwide GSM provided do your think you > could move a Tmobile G1 or mytouch and retain 3G data capability? To > which other provider could you move a Verizon Blackberry? An AT&T > iphone 3G and retain its 3G data? > > I agree with you that lack of portability is a problem, but it's a > problem with basically all US carriers, not just Sprint. > > Nominally you would think it's only policies preventing you from > moving a phone between Sprint & Verizon and simlocks between AT&T and > Tmobile, but to the best of my knowledge the 3g data offerings are > incompatible even where the voice or low-rate data might work. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
