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Originally posted by stomachmonkey
Agreed, 3g is required for the Euro market. I wonder if the lack of a Euro model (initially) may have a bit to do with the strict materials restrictions that hardware manufacturers (RoHS) must comply with in Europe.
Several electronics manufaturers pulled some of their existing product lines from the euro market after the July 06 implementation of RoHS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoHS
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Yeah, the RoHS might be a reason for the delayed introduction to Europe. But frankly i doubt that there are any non RoHS compliant parts in a new mobile phone. Like 99.5% of the new parts that the semiconductor manufacturer ships/designs today are RoHS compliant due to the requirements from Europe but also Japan. Usually BGA packages are tricky to do without lead but they do also have relaxed requirements (if i remember correctly).
I would bet that the reason is the lack of the 3G
