Lack of high end phones

[joshuat]

Over the past year we have seen some great phones come out for most carriers (coughat&tcough) like the droid line and the Evo. Yet tmobile seems to have a huge hole in regards to their android lineup. Before the vibrant and now G2 all they had was the mediocre slide, the garmin phone, and the horrible cliq duo. Any reason tmobile hasn't really had a blockbuster phone?

 

[lafountain]

Prior to the EVO or the Epic, would you have ever called anything that Sprint had "high end"? The Moment or the Hero? So it really wasn't just T-Mobile. Sprint and AT&T didn't have a great selection at first (As you pointed out AT&T still doesn't have a great selection). We all pretty much have Motorola and Verizon to thank for what we have today.

 

[JoseN305]

This has bothered me for a long time and only recently has tmo stepped up its phones. An interesting phone coming to Tmo, no other carriers announced, is the Dell Venue Pro. Its a Windows Phone 7 phone but i was surprised Tmo got it.

I would like to know how the wireless carriers deal with phone manufacturers, does one approach the other? Do the phones get shopped around and go to the highest bidder?

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Most of the time carriers approach manufacturers. Apple changed that a little, but they are still the only company that dictates to the carriers what's gonna happen.

The Torch on AT&T was made because AT&T requested the form factor from RIM.