neogaffer1
Banned
Or damn it, Sprint. Never know. But yeah, I think I'm in that boat since S6 removed SD Cards. I'm generally happy with S4 so I don't need the latest and best anyways.
There was a post a while ago in a Sony Mobile DOOMED thread about how Sprint's parent company Softbank wanted to make a deal with Sony where Softbank would have exclusivity for a few of Sony's phones over in Japan and in return Softbank would make sure there was a Sony phone on Sprint in the US. Sony said no to them and went after someone else. Softbank ended up going with Sharp, hence that Sharp "bezel-less" phone that's on Sprint right now. The carrier that Sony tried to make a deal with dumped Sony after Apple offered the iPhone.
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The thing is HTC, LG and Motorola bent over backwards and converted the carriers one by one over the years to get on their networks. Sony do not do whatever it takes to get it done. T-Mobile did the work for them, that's why the phones were so bloody late. They refused point blank to open up a CDMA testing group for VZW for two years and only changed that stance in May of this year. Masayoshi Son personally spoke to Kunimasa Suzuki to get a device for SoftBank in Japan which he said he would push on Sprint once the takeover was complete, Sony declined and said they would remain with their NTT partnership who then predictably sold Sony up the river a few months later and did a deal with Apple for the iPhone. Son signed a deal with Sharp and now their phones are being released on Sprint, the first weird Japanese devices to make it out of the country.
Sony Mobile management are a bunch of fools. The networks have no interest in carrying their devices and yet they try and act like Apple who command the attention of every carrier in the world. Sony as a brand is worthless outside of PlayStation and they need to come to terms with that and rebuild from zero, and in some areas less than zero where they are associated with poor value for money.