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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Let me play devil's advocate here for a moment: do you travel the world, and need your phone to work everywhere? I hear people say they want a "world phone", but realistically speaking only a small percentage of buyers are world-travellers and really need something that works everywhere. So do people want a world phone just "because", or is it a legitimate need?
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Actually, my travels take me through Asia/Europe and North America at least several time every year. In the past, Japan and Korea were blackspots (along with Minnesota for GSM... don't ask me why). In the past four months, I have been to Japan twice, Europe (UK, Sweden, holland, France, Germany, Switzerland), the US, Canada, Singapore, India, China, Taiwan. I have not had connection problems with my HTC in any country both for voice and for e-mail via blackberry connect. I think losing one frequency is not generally a big concern as usually there is at least another carrier on another frequency and as you are roaming in any case, who really cares who you roam onto. On the minus side, I had to answer e-mails from the ski-slopes of Hokkaido...
