December 10

I have used to avoid purchasing things from e-bay.

This Friday I was at the payment confirmation, then some mysterious forces told me to stop.

We have checked the device, that I was going to purchase and concluded that it is not possible to use it in my country for now. Ok, you may use it, but it would lack main functionality.

There was such great plan to make a gift for Christmas. This magic thing is called usual Phone.

Unfortunately I’m living in the country, where this phone will not be available for official purchase (IMHO), as I think our market is not too attractive to present it here.

I would take it with or without contract from official store, if I would live in the country (where this phone is available). But it is not available in Latvia. Huh, actually it is available on some Internet stores, double or even 3x price for device, that officially does not work and you need to take certain actions to get it work. In other words to promote device from nice looking brick player to mobile telephone. So, our Internet stores are not looking like “good guys”, isn’t it ?

So, there is an alternative opportunity to purchase phone/gadget from e-bay (nice). You have to add shipping and some other expense to get the “brick player” (I believe our Internet stores use the similar method to full their stock ;) , but Internet stores price is unreachable anyway.

So, I almost clicked “purchase”, if I would click, then I would get iBrick.

As currently, this device is shipped with firmware version 1.1.2 (e-bay sellers offer phones with that version), but it is not possible to transform it to phone in countries like mine (if the information is correct on some pages).

Unfortunately.