@Merkie We need the carriers for service and pricing. If you buy a Pre outside one of the few European countries that have them you have to manually set them up for the network you want to use, actually writing code, and as BogdanGC mentions getting Apps is often a problem. A carrier on board would make sure both Apps and nets are set up properly. A carrier would also usually have a service line where users could call if they had problems with their Pre. Also phones with plans tend to cost around the same as the unlocked phones, after the binding period(at least here in DK), giving you talk and data service to really try out your new phone almost without cost.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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Why do carriers need to get on board?
@Merkie We need the carriers for service and pricing.
If you buy a Pre outside one of the few European countries that have them you have to manually set them up for the network you want to use, actually writing code, and as BogdanGC mentions getting Apps is often a problem. A carrier on board would make sure both Apps and nets are set up properly. A carrier would also usually have a service line where users could call if they had problems with their Pre.
Also phones with plans tend to cost around the same as the unlocked phones, after the binding period(at least here in DK), giving you talk and data service to really try out your new phone almost without cost.