I really hope they start offering a region-neutral WiFi option soon. I understand why they went with EVDO for a US launch. Folks don't seem to want to retire that standard here. I was on a GSM network here for years and had so many coverage issues I actually went back to a CDMA provider for the time being. Irksome as that may be to my techie heart I figure it at least has another 5-10 years here before it goes the way of the dodo and that's probably less time than I shall have this phone (sad as that may be). If they did the hardware right, a network hardware switch to WiFi shouldn't be a difficult change and they wouldn't have to get it through numerous regulatory bodies and partnerships to do multiple launches. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
But it raises an interesting question to me: Is this thing RoHS compliant?
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