Comment Re:An Explanation (Score 1) 925
Though what I've noticed is that when a full featured phone is released here in Europe, the US model is always degraded in hardware & software, so it's not just the provider thing.
I've always understood that to be exactly the provider 'thing'. Most of the Nokia models that differ from the 'original' releases are tailored to meet the providers wishes, thus they have a different model number. For example, the original model is Nokia 6210 and if you come across with Nokia 6212, you can be sure that the model is tailored to specific providers needs by disabling some of the hardware/software features.
At least this is how it was done around 2000 when I spent some time in the UK. I noticed that if, let's say, Orange was carrying a certain Nokia model, the last digit was always different (as was the firmware).
I've always understood that to be exactly the provider 'thing'. Most of the Nokia models that differ from the 'original' releases are tailored to meet the providers wishes, thus they have a different model number. For example, the original model is Nokia 6210 and if you come across with Nokia 6212, you can be sure that the model is tailored to specific providers needs by disabling some of the hardware/software features.
At least this is how it was done around 2000 when I spent some time in the UK. I noticed that if, let's say, Orange was carrying a certain Nokia model, the last digit was always different (as was the firmware).
