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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
I'm a little doubtful of sony manufacturing different models, especially with Quad band chips being available (Gobi!). The additional cost of those chips (if Much) would be covered by the savings in logistics, and flexibility afforded by doing a single international model .
What shall be interesting to see is if the Sony will be Sim Locked (Doubtful) or will just store the settings for their partners worldwide in the firmware (A La Apple) and not allow the user to modify them directly 9more Likely).
If its in the firmware, then someone will probably be able to hack it.
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A single international model does make sense - but that doesn't mean Sony will do that. They could use a tri-band HSDPA chip, but they may stick with US frequencies for reasons we don't know yet.