Where to get a smartphone *NOT* under contract?

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:07:22AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote

> Sure sounds like a tablet will do for you.
> 
> They generally come unbundled.
> 
> If you didn't need a camera...

  Actually I do.  It's obviously not going to be great, but I do want
outdoor daylight shots.  And a tablet is a bit much to lug around all
the time, anyways.

> Beware: the phone market is segmented by frequencies.  T-Mobile
> apparently uses the same frequencies as Wind, different from Bell and
> Rogers.  (There is overlap, but having the wrong frequencies causes
> some problems.)

  I'm aware that the new entrants (Wind, Mobilicity, and Public Mobile)
all use the AWS spec.

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