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Originally Posted by Duncan View Post
Amazon, Tesco and Carphone Warehouse are all priced at about £529 without a contract, but because Amazon are now quoting 1 month delivery a search tends to come up with a marketplace seller asking £670. I could get it a bit cheaper on Carphone warehouse at £499 + £10 for a 1 month contract which I could cancel immediately but there's just a nagging doubt that they might SIM lock those ones. I'm probably wrong on that, but I'm willing pay the £20 to be sure of getting one that isn't tied to a network.
Definitely agree with you that a non-tied version would be better. I am guessing that an operator version would be very very late in updating to gingerbread and if there is a way to hack and get honeycomb on a non-tied version it would possibly not be possible on a tied version.

If they were really subsidizing the device like they do with phones then yes go for a tied version. However, with the Tab the subsidies are like non-existent.
 

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