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If mobile phone manufacturers want to avoid the risk of a consumer backlash, they must act now.
Not exact matches
It's unclear
if mobile phone operators are in any trouble for selling ZTE
phones, but since the
mobile device
manufacturer can't export components such as Qualcomm modem chips that are necessary to make those
phones work, ZTE may not be able to make
phones anyway.
Just as people are finding with
mobile dating, cell
phone manufacturers have been the masters of charging incremental amounts for small volumes of communications and there's quite a few dating sites and online communities, in general that are thinking the same way... i.e.
if I want instant messaging, I'll have to pay «X» and
if I want access to video profiles, I'll have to pay «Y».
TCL Communication, the fourth - largest
mobile phone manufacturer in North America announced today plans of a portfolio business model that will enable an entire suite of mobility products, including a brand you might know of even
if you haven't used them in a while, BlackBerry.
A Forrester Research study last year predicted that e-readers could eventually cost as little as $ 50, a loss - leader strategy that might work
if the industry adopts a subscription model similar to one used by wireless carriers and
mobile phone manufacturers.
Win8 is being designed to run from
phone to desktop and
if MS is successful in taking over the
mobile market then they will unify the OS markets and all hardware
manufacturers will quickly jump to Win8, and that leaves Nokia back to being a non-differentiated hardware
manufacturer.
The skins developed by each
manufacturer are loaded up on top of that, so read up online for details, but
if you want the very latest features that Google's
mobile OS has to offer then the Honor or OnePlus
phones look like slightly better bets.
Both
manufacturers and shoppers have realized that buying an expensive high - end
mobile phone is only practical
if it can withstand a spilled drink at the bar or an accidental dunk in the pool.
If you're in the market for a
phone that doesn't cost the earth, chances are you might have stumbled across the Acer Liquid E3, a handset from a
manufacturer more associated with computers than
mobile devices.