[Wesley762]

Originally Posted by TWO515TY

Has nothing to do with country size, it's just that people in other countries are willing to spend more on phones than Americans are. HTC is *just* now coming out with a phone with a front facing camera in the US, while phones in Europe and Japan have had them for years. That's just one small example (because it's the only one on the top of my head), but Europe and Japan are far ahead of us in terms of cell phone technology. Of course Apple, HTC, and Samsung are going to push stuff to us because we're a large market, but they adjust their products to suit the market. Boris is correct, we're probably the last to get the cool cutting edge stuff, usually because by the time we get it, it's at a price point that we will actually pay for it lol.

I would have to agree with this, it sucks I know but it's the truth. I remember when the rest of the world had camera phone's and the only way to get one in the US was to buy one from over sea's and pray you could get it to work on your carrier.