On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:33:25 +0100
David Cantrell wrote:
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.

Is that supposed to be a selling point when I can pick up a dumbphone for
9.99 from asda?

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.

Except PAYG is perfectly feasible if you only make calls and text. Not so
for data.

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/

A reliable link. Ofcom are full of it.

Whether you care is not important.

Or course its important because is what I base my decisions on you halfwitted
moron!

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

Which "people"?

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

I don't take a computer on holiday. I spend all week working with the damn
things and the last thing I want when I'm away is email and the web.

B2003