Well go on then, vote damn you
You fence-sitters are all the same
My question was inspired by "
...... some networks (ok, just one) make a complete hash of unlocking BB5 phones......" syndrome, being a recent victim of "
some network"
The handset is destined to remain locked to them unless and until someone comes out with a BB5 crack - unlikely in the extreme, it would seem. So the choice is to use it as a PAYG with that network, sell it on eBay or take the easy way out and hit it with a hammer! Bit of a waste of a good 6680 though either way you look at it!
I do rather feel that BB5 will be a right royal pain in the wotsits for anyone who buys a second user locked handset and tries to get it unlocked.
Given that there are easier ways to gain access to sophisticated handsets (i.e. SonyEricsson, Motorola) that are emminently unlockable, one could anticipate people making Nokia a lower priority choice when going to market.
But that could also just be sour grapes on my behalf lol
Edit: I wonder, also, how the implementation of BB5 locking will influence people buying handsets as part of a lifestyle choice. I've predicted the lifestyle market for just over a year now, and I do believe that the market is coming into being. A handset for the occasion? Maybe if the SIM-free market addresses lifestyle then the networks with their outmoded lock it down attitude will have to bend to the Customer requirement, rather than their own self-vested interests. SIM-free prices have to drop, dramatically, to stimulate lifestyle buying - and I believe that it will, in time, once the manufacturers see that they do not have to rely on the mobile network operators quite so much as they believe they have to right now.