Why are all the phones i want only in USA? :(

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some blurb:

I have been an n97 owner from the day it was released until now, I just walked into the desk at work with it in my pocket and cracked the pixel layer under the screen.

I am sending it to my insurance company to have it repaired / replaced but its given me the kick up the bum to get a new upgrade, since i have been out of contract for 1 year now, but really like the phone because of its keypad.

the issue:

The problem is that there are only two phones that I am interested in...

Samsung captive glide and motorola droid 4, both of which, it seems, will only be available in the usa.

its very frustrating as both these phones seem to be exactly what i am looking for, i cant understand why they would only want to sell them in the usa?

could i import one of them and use it here without problems?
 
AT&T and T-Mobile USA are GSM.
Verizon and Sprint are CDMA.

However, T-Mobile does 3G on 1700Mhz rather than 2100Mhz (the frequency used by AT&T and Europe). Some T-Mobile phones will on work on 2G over here.

Get an unlocked designed for AT&T and it should work.
 
thanks for the replies!

the motorola droid 4 looks like it will be only available on verizon, the samsung captive glide is on at&t:

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

so how do i go about getting one of these samsung captive glides from at&t?
 
The want of a physical keyboard will cripple your phone choice.

Touchscreen keyboards are more than fine now, in fact, I prefer them to hardware ones.

You'll get used to it, just get a decent one.
 
Yeah, I'm supprised you haven't got a cheap desire z/milestone 2. They hit the sales quite offten (sub £200) They're probably much better than the n97?
 
Robbo said:
The want of a physical keyboard will cripple your phone choice.
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this is my point, it doesnt cripple my choice if i live in the usa, they have lots of great mobile phones with qwerty keypads, why cant we have the same choice in the rest of the world?

Maybe its because of people like yourself (hope that doesnt sound rude, its not meant to be) who settle for a phone that is not exactly what they want. Or maybe its my fault for being so stubborn and spoiled....

I have looked at the desire z and milestone 2 but they didnt/dont seem like much of an upgrade tbh. there are things that i like about the n97 that didnt seem to be outweighed by the positives of moving to either of those handsets.

Even the captive glide is good but i much prefer the way the screen pops up on the n97 compared to all the other qwerty phones around at the moment(excluding E7 but im trying to move away from nokia).

the blackberry 9810 might be what i am forced to get but i much prefer to be stubborn and use a 3210 until my perfect phone comes on the market...
 
I know what you mean tbh, I can't help or add to your choices here, but I was in USA recently and noticed everyone was using full QWERTY keyboard phones
 
Robbo said:
The want of a physical keyboard will cripple your phone choice.

Touchscreen keyboards are more than fine now, in fact, I prefer them to hardware ones.

You'll get used to it, just get a decent one.
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Used a friends Galaxy S 2 all weekend, still completely disagree with you and was thankful to come back to my BB9900. The lack of feedback and inability to touch type makes them utterly useless to me.
 
Hxc said:
Used a friends Galaxy S 2 all weekend, still completely disagree with you and was thankful to come back to my BB9900. The lack of feedback and inability to touch type makes them utterly useless to me.
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You can turn on feedback and if he was using the default keyboard, it's quite possibly one of the worst software keyboards... ever. :p

The ability to touch type on a phone is a very niche thing, which isn't good for you. :(

Also, large landscape keyboards are a lot more fiddly to type on than a BlackBerry portrait one.
 
Robbo said:
Also, large landscape keyboards are a lot more fiddly to type on than a BlackBerry portrait one.
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My Milestone was perfect :(
If they released the Droid 3 or 4 here I would be in heaven. I miss the larger screen and things like google nav on my BB.... perhaps the BB10 devices next year will sort me. Or maybe Nokia will release a WP7 slider.

I've used Swype and Bettertouch or something as well, as well as the god awful iphone one (imo) and don't like any of them
ps. I know I'm stubborn and awkward :p
 
I have the E7 and I really can't get on with it (and it's meant to be the business when it comes to landscape keyboards).

Lovely design though. Maybe I need to practice. :p
 
i havent tried using the E7, i didnt like the idea of a nokia phone that you couldnt remove the battery from when it crashed. :(

im borrowing my girlfriends old blackberry for a month, see how i get on with it.

But still to maintain the point, these companies shouldn't exclude Europe...

From GSM arena:

The Samsung Captivate Glide is aiming for the interest of a special group of people – the messaging and social network junkies, which abound here in the United States.
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So i guess people in Europe dont message or use social networks....

Interestingly enough, it’s been a relatively quiet year for the fans of the hardware QWERTY droids. The offerings are few, while the potential users are plenty – good news for Samsung’s entry.
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And this is why I have been hanging on to my n97 for so long, waiting for a decent qwerty phone to come to europe.. :(

i might start a poll or petition or something....
 
The lack of decent QWERTY Android phones over here is a bit of a bummer, but software keyboards are getting better and better and Android 4.0 has probably the best soft keyboard I've ever used.
 
The Droid 3 was GSM-capable as a global phone so maybe the Droid 4 will follow the same pattern?
 
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