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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 04:30 PM EDT |
Exactly, MS could build a promotion with the European types
of plans that would be favored by a number of US customers
who have an old cell phone, would like a phone with a data
plan, but don't need to go on the internet that much, only
on occasion, and don't want to pay for a high cost monthly
data plan (where even the pre-paid Android phones you can
get at $45 per month are too much per month for this type of
user.
Nokia Microsoft need to find a crack somewhere to get into
the market, as already the users for Apple or Android have
migration plans, and accounts set up (so are less likely to
migrate away at this point).
So - that is one huge crack of users that do not now have a
phone, but might have a pre-paid now, but not a data pre-
paid. I know, it's low end, but it is the only opening
where there is a huge number of people to get started with,
that don't already have a dataphone (but might want one,
only the monthly cost increase they can't justify). Low end
US users, pre-paid data card, that can be re-filled (only no
monthly fee).
I know of several businesses that would by this, as they are
cutting back on cell phone costs, and would allow this type
of dataphone for their employees at a low cost, and would
not allow "non-business" use then of that phone... pre-paid,
limited data, no monthly bill. It's the economy, and that
is what would sell.
If Nokia MS go up against Apple or Android at this point,
feature for feature with the same pricing, well, they are at
a disadvantage, as both Apple and Android are mostly free OS
, we know that Apples is free for them, so they have just
the cost of the hardware, and the rest is profit. Nokia has
the MS cost, and MS has to charge for the software, making
the profit per phone less. Unless MS wants to lose money,
for a while to get penetration, and if they want to do that,
they might as well do it with a low cost pre-paid program,
as that is where they could pick up the most volume at the
lowest price (basically picking off the current Net10 or
tracfone user that does not have a data plan, offering them
something less costly, but, where they can upgrade on a use
data as you go plan).
MS / Nokia has no other folks that they can hook as easy as
the bottom right now.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 09:57 AM EDT |
> And you can't take the sim out of an iPhone.
Yes you can.
You can even buy cutters to chop a standard SIM down to the format used in an
iPhone...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MICRO-SIM-CARD-CUTTER-2-ADAPTER-iPHONE-4-4G-iPAD-/1807
83168276?pt=UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL&hash=item2a17843b14 for example.
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