Good luck to Moto selling their Play and Style in Australia - They're gonna need it!

I happened to have lost my Sony Z3 Compact in a cab in China last week and am on the hunt for a new phone .. I was for 90% sure that the Play was going to be my next, but they've just announced the pricing and availability in Australia. Here it comes, both the Play and Style will be released next month (regarding the Play, why is it so hard to release it worldwide on the same day??) and both will be only be available through Vodafone (Really?? Carrier-locked while the rest of the world gets it unlocked?!) , which has 5M subscribers out of 30M total mobile subscriptions (most at Telstra and Optus) and the worst coverage possible. The Play might be sold "later on" for the beautiful price of 569AU$ (to be confirmed, =378E, 420US$), making it a mid-range phone at the price of a Z3 and around 70AU$ more expensive than my lost Z3 Compact..

Source(s): http://www.cnet.com/au/news/motorola...-availability/
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/m...17-gj1bnx.html

Sorry for this little rant, but I could barely believe what I just read. It looks like Moto is not even trying to sell the phone over here..