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I believe he meant to say something along the lines of "Why is the S2 only just become available in the US now"?

Which is obviously because your Government lets the Telecom Providers bribe them in order to screw the US public just that little bit extra :p

I think what he means is that its launch has been delayed in the USA, so it is available "only" now.

Maybe they use Europe for testing. Maybe because it's a huge market that request must be filled all at once. Imagine there was a problem and they had to return the devices to factory.

Europe is a bigger market than the USA, and a much more complicated one to get right - each country has it's own regulations, language, different stores to deal with, etc.

I can only assume it's the American carriers that caused the delay.