>> Heh. I wonder - do they deliberately design phones to break after a 
>> while?
> 
> Not as such, but all the testing is designing to simulate 2 years "in 
> the wild".  After that they don't care what happens.

Fair enough...


> 
> They didn't use to either, my first phone was a Motorola brick for 80 
> GBP, and my second was a Nokia 3310 for around the same price.  Of 
> course if you want the latest all singing all dancing phone, it does, 
> and always has, cost a lot more.  There have always been cheap ones 
> available though.

Interesting. I was told (I mean, this was a while ago) that if you sign 
up to an expensive monthly contract, they throw in the handset for free, 
but if you buy the handset on its own, it's hundreds of pounds. So I was 


Also, what's with all these "locked" phones? What's all that about?

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