[nize2beme]

Google doesn't charge for any of there most used services and we love them for that... but they have to make money somehow or we wouldn't have opposition to these m$ and Apple guys. The reason these phones are so cheap compared to the Winmo phone is also b/c they run android. There has to be profit somewhere and they choose to use ads instead of direct charging which is good I think. It gets apps out there for free yet still ofers revenue for developers, you can literally try thousands of apps and use them for free rather than spend $ and find you hate the prog. like we have with winmo, or apple. The day where I have to see a TRIAL or AD for 10 seconds before running the program each time I launch it will be the day I would start complaining, but a little add at the top of my screen (esp a 4.3" screen) is nothing to me at the moment, I applaud google at keeping their ways years later. They did it with google.com and was able to bring that same revenue stream to us on a huge level with these phones still keeping costs down to us.