Comments on: Dell Droid Gets Rejected

By: bgutter

bgutter — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:54:24 +0000

@eliseobc

reasonable prices would be impossible without carrier subsidization… and the carriers have to decide which phones they want to subsidize, because they’d go for broke pretty quick otherwise. CDMA phones have to be customized to work with specific networks..which costs the network money and effort. If they are going to customize a phone for their own network (plan, code, debug, release, etc) then sell the device for less than they paid the factory, they have every right to be selective. This is why unlocked GSM phones cost an arm and a leg.

That said, I do personally enjoy unlocked/open phones. But carrier selectivity is something reasonably acceptable.

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By: Gil

Gil — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:44:10 +0000

@Solid

Wouldnt most of that be software based? As it stands I know my G1 cant wifi tether (at least without root) within the standard paramaters of the android os, so I dont think thats the case. If the hardware was “too good”, I would imagine the opposite

By: solid

solid — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:06:02 +0000

maybe it was rejected because it was too good. Imagine a phone with bittorrent, skype, wifi tether, etc. I can see t-mobile saying um no. We don’t need that on our network.

By: eliseobc

eliseobc — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:07:04 +0000

Why they just don’t let the public decide?

Allow everyone to be able to buy it, at a reasonable price. Why the carriers have to decide that?