11-20-09 - Droid Price Drops to $119.99
Developers cut back on any more Android Development
the Droid isn't far behind. The Dell Mobility Store is offering it for
a rather reasonable $120 (with a new Verizon account, of course).
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/11/delldroidprice.jpg
This is almost a surprising price drop after what we thought was a
pretty decent launch for this handset.
Why such a rush to a lower price if sales are good?
Are all sales final?
Have there been too many returns from disappointed Verizon customers?
Developers cut back on unprofitable Android Development
Development
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> Have there been too many returns from disappointed Verizon customers?
Droid Does: A Price Drop
from Mashable! by Adam Ostrow
When it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the
Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although
Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that
some of its retailers are not.
Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone
to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news
broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named
iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi.
Of course, the device cost shouldn’t really play a huge role in
consumer’s decision given the total costs of ownership for all of them
are well into the thousands of dollars over the life of the wireless
contract. Nonetheless, if retailers are slashing prices, meaning
they’re making less on each sale, it could be a sign that these iPhone
alternatives aren’t selling as well as anticipated.
So far, it’s been estimated that the Droid sold about 100,000 handsets
in its first weekend and 250,000 in its first week on the market.
Ness-Net
"Developers cut back on unprofitable Android Development" <vic.h...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:9b1e6127-b9cc-429a...@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 20, 6:09 pm, Developers cut back on any more Android
> Development
>>
>> Have there been too many returns from disappointed Verizon customers?
>
> Droid Does: A Price Drop
> from Mashable! by Adam Ostrow
>
>
> When it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the
> Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although
> Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that
> some of its retailers are not.
>
> Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone
> to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news
> broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named
> iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi.
>
> consumer�s decision given the total costs of ownership for all of them
> are well into the thousands of dollars over the life of the wireless
> contract. Nonetheless, if retailers are slashing prices, meaning
> alternatives aren�t selling as well as anticipated.
>
> So far, it�s been estimated that the Droid sold about 100,000 handsets
> in its first weekend and 250,000 in its first week on the market.
>
Do you actually have any clue how cellphone marketing works these days??
Hey moron fanboi... If you actually look at this factually - you would find that this actually is a mark AGAINST Apple.
The mentioned retailers are completely FREE to set the pricing on the device they sell, as THEY see fit
In contrast, when it comes to the iPhone, there is absolutely ZERO freedom price wise.
No free market forces at work - just the iron grip of Apple tightly around the consumer's throat - squeezing every
cent.....
Gee, I wonder which one is better for the consumer??
Richard B. Gilbert
Well, if consumers feel that they MUST have an iPhone and nothing else
will do. . . .
I think that I will hang on to my unfashionable Motorola RAZR V3m. Some
of us would prefer a phone to a fashion statement!
Richard B. Gilbert
> In article <jYadnc6pcNgozZrW...@giganews.com>,
> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilb...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I think that I will hang on to my unfashionable Motorola RAZR V3m. Some
>> of us would prefer a phone to a fashion statement!
>
>
That might have been when I bought mine. The batteries in our old
StarTac 9868Ws were not holding a charge as long as they should. I
think I could have fixed it with new batteries. Instead I elected to
get new phones.
I'll be eligible for NE2 in late December. I'll certainly take a look
at what's available but if I can get another two years out of my RAZRs
why not?
Larry
news:o4GdnSVIHNPT_JrW...@giganews.com:
> I'll be eligible for NE2 in late December.
AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!! Stop thinking like 1990! YOU'RE NOT A SLAVE!!
Great time to switch to a cheap prepaid like PagePlus and put those
sellphone slave images, pouring money down the sellphone drain into The
Borg's pocket to rest!
Too bad Cricket/Leap has such poor coverage. They just put a $25/mo
unlimited talk and text plan up on their website as a "special"!
http://www.mycricket.com/cell-phone-plans?
utm_source=mycricket&utm_medium=ILC&utm_campaign=ILC-hero0008
The sellphone biz is getting VERY cutthroat for those who can see past
the snobbish bastards dangling the NE2 carrot in front of the sheeple!
No contracts, no catch, no funny business...$25!
The Borg:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?
item=planFirst&action=viewPlanDisplay&planId=46483&typeId=1&orderKey=
$119 PLUS $20 IN FUNNY TAXES AND "FEES" AND ONLY $2/MEGABYTE...$2000/GB!
Add up your Borg Bill for the last 24 months. Subtract 24 months at $25
which is $600. How much MORE is your Borg Enslavement Contract costing
you? If you bought a phone at retail and added it to $600, how much
MORE is a Borg Enslavement Contract for 2 more years stuck with a $350
ETF nonsense?
Remember when you phone crapped out and The Borg offered you a cheap
refurb'd PoS someone dropped in the toilet then turned in for $50?
Cricket is RETAILING a little camera phone not all hobbled up and BRAND
NEW for $50, today! NO FUNNY BUSINESS OR CONTRACT OR $350 ETF!!
Cricket now works from the north end of the Charleston, SC, metro area
all the way to the south end of the Savannah metro area, out onto Hilton
Head Island and points in between! They've been building like mad south
of Charleston.
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Holy Crap! Have you all looked at the VZW "plans" today?
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/plansingleline.jsp?
lid=//global//plans//voice+plans//individual
Look at the INCLUDED MINUTES quoted! "AT LEAST 450 MINUTES"? IT
DOESN'T SAY HOW MANY MINUTES ARE INCLUDED NOW! WTF?!
Even The Borg is feeling the Depression pressure!
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Too bad Cricket isn't in most places, like it is here. $25 for
UNLIMITED! Even the kids at Waffle House can talk and text forever on a
NEW camera phone! If the phones work as good as my Cricket A600 aircard
does on my pocket router....it's a helluva deal!
--
Larry
Is this the end of the per minute and slave contract bullshit we've all
been chained to all these years?
My "Verizon Service" on PagePlus was under $12 last month!....I didn't
lose a minute! They charged me FIFTY CENTS monthly fee! It's a no-
brainer! I got the SAME coverage as some idiot paying The Borg $133.77
(with funny charges) who lost all his minutes and had to start over
again, on a SLAVE CONTRACT paying 5 times over for his little plastic
shitphone! Unlimited talk and text ON VERIZON from PagePlus is only
$40, TOTAL COST!!
"NEW EVERY TWO" my ass!
That drawer full of phones in my desk just became an ASSET!
SMS
> Why such a rush to a lower price if sales are good?
Rather a small price drop compared to what AT&T did with the first
iPhone in order to spur sales. Verizon is running into the same type of
customer resistance.
I picked up my nephew from L.A. at the airport last night in FLL and was
surprised to see him with a Blackberry on Verizon as he's really not the
Blackberry type. He said he thought the Droid felt fragile. When he left
Sprint due to coverage issues he had purchased an iPhone and he liked it
a lot for the applications, but he had poor coverage where he lives in
L.A. near "The Grove" so he returned the iPhone and got an iPod Touch
and a Blackberry on Verizon. He's a total Apple fanatic, mainly because
he uses Final Cut Pro to do movie editing for work (unless the studio
insists on using Avid), so I really thought he'd have an iPhone.
Having heard the "I love the iPhone but can't deal with AT&T coverage"
story multiple times in the past week, from relatives from all over the
country, I'm thinking that there are 10-15 million potential iPhone
sales waiting for an iPhone on Verizon.
Richard B. Gilbert
> Developers cut back on any more Android Development wrote:
>
>> Why such a rush to a lower price if sales are good?
>
unemployment rate, and that sort of stuff?
> Rather a small price drop compared to what AT&T did with the first
> iPhone in order to spur sales. Verizon is running into the same type of
> customer resistance.
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JG
Outstanding, more brain broiling of big bucks hipsters. These people
paid above average taxes into Social Security. The big minute yappers
will leave a nice surplus in SS. Thanks Apple !