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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 09:50 AM EDT |
| I don't think that existed at the time. The E70 is quite an old model now. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 01:53 AM EDT |
Really? As this was long before the Galaxy ever saw the light of day it might
have been a little difficult.
The whole problem with modern phones is that they are so darn complex you need a
test drive of at least a couple of weeks to see if you get on with a particular
model. Fiddling with one in a shop or having play with a friends one does not
count.
There is a possible business opportunity here for someone to set up a company
that 'rents' you the phone for say a month. You just supply the SIM card. I'm
sure that people would pay a premium over the contract rental price just to make
sure that they get a phone (of whatver sort) that they like and feel comfortable
with for the longer term.
The main issue with this is that for some manufacturers (hey Samsung, I'm
looking at you) the shelf life of a phone is so short that the rental company
couldn't get any ROI.
The practice of flooding the market with mant almost identical phones is IMHO
wrong. There are no real differentiators between them. Apple has a much better
model here. you know that any Apple phone will be on sale for at least a year.
This is not the case with many other manufacturers.
Don't even get me started on the Software upgrade policies of the likes of HTC.
Once again, the Apple model seems on the face of it a lot better than those of
the Android camp. As for Microsoft... they are a joke. Their limiting of
hardware specs so that the phone I (might) buy today can't run the next version
of their OS is nothing more than artificial obsolescence. IT is so wasteful of
the resources that go into making the phones esp all those 'rare earth'
materials that are in such short supply they should be ashamed of themselves.
Yeah, the phone business is a pile of stinking dog poo and needs to be cleaned
up.
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