Why is the US always so far behind when it comes to new phone models?

Question

Seriously, Nokia has a bunch of new phones (N series and more) out in Europe and Asia, yet the Nokia phones offered in the US provider stores are ridiculously out of date and are always one or two really low end Nokia phones.

You can almost never get the new and up to date, cuttting edge phones in the provider stores like Tmobile or Cingular, you always have to buy online or goto a specialty store. Why are these providers so far behind??? Why do they keep stitcking it out with the pathetically out of date Razrs, Krzrs, Crappers and lame LG or Samsung flip-phones that break after 5 months?

The real kicker is that yes, you can get Tmobile service with just about any phone, but if you buy a phone they do not sell in their stupid store (ie. a GOOD Nokia phone), then they do not offer any support for it nor insure it nor help you with anything related to it.

Answer 1

the US has alway been and will prbly always be behind when it comes to cell phones. the reason is US carriers dont want to introduce new phones that could hurt them, but in Europe and Asia the cell phone makers, motorola, lg, nokia, can put out new phones with no restrictions.\

Stupid right ?

Answer 2

I KNOW RIGHT!!! they call the iphone "revolutionary" when it's not!!! people in asia use their phone as a boom box, a credit card, they can trade stock on it, they connect to the internet, they can be used as train/meal tickets, and architects carry around their blue prints in them..... so i don't know why they call the iphone "reveloutionary" maybe it will reveloutionaise they cave man era, but certanily not our era... but ohh well, we are americans we are ready to buy anything steve jobs tells us will be cool..... WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR OUTDATED PHONES AMERICA!!!

Answer 3

as with all things u.s. they want you to buy locally produced, so that they dont have to compete with superior quality.