X Performance USA price

[Ninjabird7]

Here

X Performance will cost $700 unlocked in the USA. First I want to say that I think the price is too high but I still like the phone a lot. I have T-mobile and I don't think they will carry it and if they don't that means that I will have to pay $700 up front for the phone. I can't afford to spend that so is there a way to buy it through payments?

[Uliwooly]

@Ninjabird7

I thought T-mobile went the AT&T and Verizon way, now you have to pay full price of the device, the only difference is that either you:

pay full price upfront 

pay full price in 24 payments

pay full price in 36 payments

I'm glad that we are getting the devices released about the same time as other markets.

[Ninjabird7]

I went to the T-Mobile by my house and one of the workers told me that you don't have to pay upfront. But that was last year so things could have changed.

[Uliwooly]

@Ninjabird7

Yeah that's gone, now you can "lease" a phone, it's cheaper but you don't get to keep it, you could make monthly payments but subsidized contracts are gone, only Sprint has something like that. 

[Ninjabird7]

If they were gonna carry the X performance they would have announced it by now right?

[Uliwooly]

@Ninjabird7

Not sure, but if they are it should be soon.

[Ninjabird7]

Hope they do.

[Coup27]

Why do Sony omit the fingerprint reader from US models?

[Uliwooly]

@Coup27

I wonder if it's like the Z5 series were the hardware is there but it's disabled by software, if so, you could flash a different firmware to enable it, but I wonder what's the problem here in the US that this is not enabled, could it be a patent or law or something else?

[Jay_P]

Hi,

I like the phone but no VOLTE or wifi calling... 

wifi is T-Mobile enable software only

any idea if it has the VOLTE feature? and software to run it?

I have the z3c unlocked, great phone but no volte or wifi calling. speakers are too low and sometime i do not get a signal