On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:04:30PM +0000, d wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:29:34 +0100 David Cantrell wrote:
price of manufacturing smartphones is dropping quickly (retail price,
unsubsidised, has already dropped from hundreds of pounds to tens of
pounds),
Depends. You can pick up some old symbian stuff for 90 quid but thats
about as low as it goes at the moment.

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/08/2...ndroid_phones/

The lowest in that list is 70 quid.

Once almost everyone can afford a smartphone, or they start being given
away "for free" with a phone contract, the cost of manufacturing
There are not being given away and they're not free as you well know or you
wouldn't have put it in quotes. Contracts cost a fortune and they get the
full retail price of the phone back and then some over the period.

So? This is no different from dumbphones.

Already a quarter of adults have a smartphone and half of all teenagers.
Got a link for that?

http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2011/08/04...o-smartphones/

which are the top three categories of paid-for content/applications on
phones? They a
* games
Don't care, I'm not 15.

Nor are most people who play games.

* music
Don't care.

Whether you care is not important.

* travel
Can use a proper computer for that or visit a travel agents.
That really the best you've got?

The point is that this demonstrates that, contrary to your foolish
assertions, people find a smartphone to be useful for travel
information.

And don't you think it would be better to take a tiny pocket-sized
device on holiday instead of a "proper computer"?

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