Sentences with phrase «subsidized device»
A subsidized device refers to a product, typically a mobile phone or electronic gadget, that is sold below its actual cost price. It is often offered by telecommunication companies or retailers, who reduce the price of the device in exchange for the customer signing up for a monthly contract or service plan. Full definition
Things change when looking at subsidized devices, as carriers become involved in the update release schedule.
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T - Mobile doesn't sell subsidized devices like a traditional carrier — they'll sell you a new smartphone on an installment plan if you like, effectively decoupling the price of the phone from the price of the monthly service.
Following moves away from subsidized devices in the United States, the demand for flagship smartphones that won't break the bank has never seemed greater.
Carriers love to subsidize the device therefore locking you into a 2 year contract.
It also explicitly states that dealers may subsidize the device however they want.
One way this could ultimately happen is if wireless providers like Verizon subsidize the devices and sell them in their stores, as they do with the inexpensive laptops called netbooks.
Subsidizing devices by showing ads isn't anything new for the company, but once it became clear that these new Kindle Fires would be showing ads, people began wondering if Amazon would allow users to opt out of the special offers program by paying a fee, as it has done with its devices in the past.
Though they're mostly unobtrusive, Amazon is partially subsidizing these devices with its «special offers.»
* Amazon's business model is to subsidize device sales with ebook sales.
«Device makers should partner with companies that have incentives to subsidize the device in exchange for a content subscription (newspapers like the Detroit Free Press) or service subscription (mobile carriers like Verizon, which already has a similar model for mobile phones and now netbooks),» the report says.
You can't afford to subsidize devices like that.»
In the US, MVNOs like Ting started challenging conventions like subsidized devices and contracts, overpriced unlimited and plans that dictate fixed levels of voice, data and text.
Purchased content (on a subsidized device) takes up what, maybe 25 % of the screen?
This is picking up where its e-readers left off with a subsidized device that serves you adverts on the screensaver and homescreen.
No word yet on the 3G and WIFI aspects of the devices, but knowing Acer is trying to close Carrier deals to subsidize the devices to bring the price down.
In my opinion simple e-readers should be very inexpensive, it should be a subsidized device used to facilitate and ease the selling books to readers.
You know the subsidized devices end up costing you the same as this in the long run anyway.
As principal analyst at The Enderle Group, Rob Enderle, points out: «This is a subsidized device that comes with advertisements that make money for the company and offsets that manufacturing price, giving Amazon its profit margins.»
Samsung could also conceivably offer a more expensive unlocked Galaxy Tab, in addition to a cheaper carrier - subsidized device.
If you want a subsidized device, get a classic plan.
This is way too pricey for a subsidized device.
«Device makers should partner with companies that have incentives to subsidize the device in exchange for a content subscription (newspapers like the Detroit Free Press) or service subscription (mobile carriers like Verizon, which already has a similar model for mobile phones and now netbooks),» the Forrester report states.
I guess the first test will be to see whether they actually manage to get mobile carriers to subsidize this device to around $ 13 as the hope.
2010's Nook Color was a pioneering product, with Barnes & Noble using digital sales to subsidize the device.
In effect, every customer on the cellular carrier was paying for a subsidized device, whether or not they got one.
When their two - year - contract was up, the only sensible thing to do was immediately jump into another two - year contract with another subsidized device.
Usually when we talk about wireless plans, we're talking about postpaid plans that come with a subsidized device.
The deals available when you're not wanting a subsidized device are generally significantly better, and so those willing to piece together a phone and plan separately are at an advantage.