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Price War Is Underway For Contents? Amazon Lowers The Price Of More Than 30 Verizon Phones To A Penny Each

Oct 16, 11 8:25 PM

iPhone 4S has jolted the smartphone market with its thundering entrance.  This prompts Apple’s adversaries to vamp up their efforts in taking down iPhone’s domination.  Amazon has made the first move by selling more than 30 Verizon phones for a penny each?

Obviously, the deal is that customers have to sign a contract for a penny a phone deal.  Nonetheless, this kind of deal is rather sweet, because a penny is something everyone hates to keep around.  People rather bundle up their pennies into sticks of pennies so they can haul such pennies to banks to cash out green papers, but some people feel repulsive at the idea for they think it’s somewhat embarrassing.  OK, did I digress?

Anyhow, I think Amazon has an interest in seeing Apple’s trademark products such as iPhone wane in popularity.  As long Apple keeps on gaining ground in the smartphone and tablet markets, the more Amazon will be scared for Amazon has to face with the possibility that more customers will shop for ebooks and music and movies and magazines on Apple’s platforms only.  Amazon is once again up to its old trick by selling things much much cheaper than its competitors could ever have done so, under any circumstance.  I think Amazon hopes this will eventually weed out all competitors in price wars.  This time around, Amazon means business in the context of a price war on contents.

In summary, at the agonies of Apple’s adversaries, for the limited time Amazon will sell over 30 Verizon’s phones for a penny each.  This move might prevent people to become Apple’s iPhone 4S customers, because they will be bind to the contracts under Verizon’s phones.  I doubt Apple will cut price, because Apple loves to think it’s above the fray — price war won’t be happening here folks! Nonetheless, Amazon might eventually give Apple a scare anyway unless Apple’s charm is too hard to beat!  Even cutting prices to a penny cannot win the day?

For your information:  According to PCMag, iPhone and iPad aren’t part of the deal, but Verizon’s top of the line phones will be part of the deal after all!  PCMag points out that even Motorola Droid Bionic is under the deal.  This phone has super fast Internet access and dual core processor.  Its original price was $299 with two year contract, but now it’s a penny with a contract.  So on and so on…

Source:  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394726,00.asp

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You Like Imaginary Phone?

May 23, 11 10:44 PM

Why need to have your smartphone out in plain sight when you can remember all of  its features on the palm of your hand as if you’re a chess savant who could remember all the chess pieces’ positions during a blindfold chess game, right?  Wrong, I think it’s rather silly!  It’s cool that the technology exists just to prove humans are innovative, but this very innovation can only make you look silly.

Why?  Carrying a smartphone so one could hide it inside a pocket and use imaginary smartphone on a palm to prove one’s super muscle memory capability or plain memory tells me that carrying a smartphone in itself is a redundancy.  On the other hand, if they can forgo the smartphone altogether and squeeze all that power into a cool fashionable glasses, it won’t be so silly.  Even a famous celebrity who has to do crazy hand gestures to open emails on a red carpet day and in front of dozens of cameras using a smartphone glasses, it probably be OK and cool and fashionable and futuristic.

Why?  Because we know there is no need to carry a redundant physical smartphone in pocket so we could prove our might in muscle memory capability.  In fact, one knows that the smartphone glasses won’t be so invisible if one wears it; all that 3D visuals and what not will all appear virtually in front of the wearer.  Let hope the glasses/invisible smartphone will bear fruit, and I have to say no thanks to the invisible smartphone/palm.

Source:  http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/invisible-iphone-prototype-puts-the-hand-back-in-handset-vi/

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Is this a good or a bad thing for people to ditch landline phones, giving that we know the advantages of landline phones over cell phones?

Apr 22, 11 6:59 PM

It’s totally sensible to see people shy away from home phones for cell phones.  Both services end up providing the same essential function which is telecommunication.  The supply and demand is at work clearly in this matter, and this is why we see the dilution of the needs for home phones.  But people need to realize home phone itself does have several advantages over cell phone.  In most cases, home phone is still cheaper, more reliable, and not depending on battery life.

Home phone is cheaper when a huge family is big on having each phone in each room to barely satisfy with the idea of having a phone for each person, because having each cell phone for each person is definitely going to be way more expensive than just having one landline phone where any number of home phone can be connected to this particular landline phone.

Home phone is more reliable in a sense that it’s always available, because even a major power outage cannot prevent landline phone from working.  In the case of landline phone utilizing voice over IP, no power will affectively shut down voice over IP phones.  In the case of complex home phones that require electricity to function, then without power will affectively shut down these complex home phones.  Every cell phone requires its owner to charge it often.  When one forgets to keep the battery life of a cell phone up, then one basically has a phone that isn’t working.

High availability of a landline phone provides better security.  Example, calling 9-1-1 is utterly important in emergency situations, and you know any landline phone is always going to be available for such critical purposes.  Can’t say the same for cell phones.

Obviously, cell phones are inherently more convenient and fashionable.  It’s not a surprise to see the trend of more people forgo their landline phones and pick up cell phone plans according to a report from National Center for Health Statistics.  Unfortunately, the lifestyles of nowadays requiring people to stay on top of things at constant rate, and cell phones provide perfect convenience for these people.  It seems it’s probable that landline phones may have to fade out eventually in most households.  Is this a good or a bad thing for people to ditch landline phones, giving that we know the advantages of landline phones over cell phones?

Source:  http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=78245&full_skip=1

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