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It's unfortunate, but the US culture only looks at itself as the quintessential gold standard, when in fact it's such a minuscule market with regards to a huge number of technology venues (including the smart phone market). Most of the best smart phone technology is never even seen here in the US. If you want to get your hands on it, you have to either go through back channels in different countries or go overseas and get it yourself. Sorry to say, the American market choices are weak, at-best. There is, once in a while, something worth checking out over here, but the likes of the android and iphone-like devices here in the States are still far behind that of some Nokia and native Japanese/Chinese/Taiwanese products which are designed heavily around media content. If the US consumer saw what other markets outside the US had to choose from and how for how long its been available, I think there would be a largely disappointed (if not upset) consumer base (especially when these high-end devices cost a lot less than what we're being gouged for by the carrier/vendors here in the good ol' US of A.)
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