or will be in a week or 2, what next?
No other manufacturer is going to make the phones, they know M$ doesn't do competition. And most carriers don't want to deal with M$.
So M$ needs to buy a phone company (carrier, not manufacturer) next.
Now that Nokia is dead
or will be in a week or 2, what next?
No other manufacturer is going to make the phones, they know M$ doesn't do competition. And most carriers don't want to deal with M$. So M$ needs to buy a phone company (carrier, not manufacturer) next. |
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Nokia's not dead.
Nowhere near.
In fact, they're looking considerably perkier than RIM (not that that is a particularly high bar to get over), not least because they sell hundreds and hundreds of millions of low-end handsets all around the world. Of far more interest is what Google will do to Motorola when the takeover happens this year. My bet? The picked-over bones of the hardware division is jettisoned, sans patents, by Christmas. |
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Shit. I forgot the "free" card
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I got my 800 free on contract
£26/mo
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whats that in pints, we need a real measuring stick
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Re: whats that in pints, we need a real measuring stick
£26 gets me, per month:
Nokia Lumia 800 (I have the blue one. No-one has ever, on their death bed, said "Gee willikers, I sure am glad I didn't have that blue phone.") 600 minutes (sounds not much, but remember: we don't pay for incoming calls) Unlimited texts 1GB internet BT Openzone wifi access Or, in other words, my phone costs me, per month, 10 pints in my local. |
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Rather better than my contract.
I have a HTC Desire S. I don't remember the upfront cost, but it wouldn't have been more than $50 and may have been nothing. I'm paying $59/mo for 24 months. For that I get:
1.5Gb of data $500 of outgoing calls (90c/min - yeah, our call costs are ridiculously complex, but we don't pay for incoming) Unlimited text And the phone is unlocked. Mind you, 1.5Gb/mo phone data is huge for me. I got used to managing my data back when it was 256Mb/mo and never lost the habits. Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
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about $40 a month in beer equivalence, quite good
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