Nokia: Take It Directly To The USA - An Employee's Perspective

Recently, Ricky's rant ended up as a discussion on Information Week.  I'm happy to see the topic still going, but still confused about the solution.

By way of a comment on my original post, I've come across an interesting article by Phoneboy.  I thank you for shedding as much information as you could, without getting into any trouble. 

While the whole article proves to give some answers to consumer queries, this struck my attention, especially for Cingular users:

Carrier customizations take a lot of work, especially in the US. US carriers have some rather unique requirements for handsets. And even if the work is done to meet those very specific requirements, the carrier can come back and say “we’re not going to carry the phone.” While I don’t have any exact figures on what that some of that work runs, it’s wasted money all the same. I suspect that was one of the reasons that phones take so long to come out here in the US, if they come out at all, is carrier customizations for the US market.

My blunt arguement to that is... who the hell needs the customizations!!!!  Sorry to sound like such a nit-pick.

Thank you PhoneBoy for shedding some more light on the situation.

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[monkey-king]

In China, we also have to live with Nokia phones without WiFi and 3G due to some stupid government regulations. But at least we have all the other cool features. They said US is run by free market, and Chinese is run by dictators...