Is it possible that we could just buy this phone from Google online,
switch the SIM chip from our current carrier and cellular plan into it
and off we go.
Since I have no contract in force ... it expired ... that would mean I
would never need another contract ... unless I was to change carriers etc.
Could this be the first break in the US cellular monopoly and eventually
lead us to a cellular situation as in a lot of the rest of the world,
where you buy a phone and a chip and off you go... buying more minutes
as necessary?
db
mike wrote:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091214/D9CIPAIO0.html
*The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported Sunday that
Google plans to sell the phone directly to consumers, instead of through a
wireless carrier. Such a move would mean Google would go head-to-head with
Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's Blackberry, as well as current
makers of Android phones.*
This statement seems to contradict itself...in one instance it says the
device will be sold to directly to consumers and then they say it will go
head to head against iPhone etc...well iPhones and BB's aren't sold direct
so which is it? Engadget has been reporting for weeks at least that the
phone is made by HTC, no surprise. But if this phone is truly going to be
sold direct, it could be a game changer. This could be finally at last the
subsidized google phone we heard about years ago. The current model
floating around is GSM but there are reports of a CDMA out there also.
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