Are
you amazed at all the China
Android Smart Phone choices, calling plans, and announcements when it comes
to iPhones, Google Phones, Droid Phones, Blackberries, and clones? If so, you
can join the club. We've been busy studying these things since they were on the
drawing boards, and it's hard to keep up with even spending 2-hours a day
studying all the new happenings in the industry and all the reviews out there.
In the end however, it is not the branding, marketing, or advertising which
will determine the winners and losers in the market rather it's you; the
consumer, customer, and user.
Recently,
a personal tech guru of the smart phone technology space noted in his weekly
column some interesting insights into just how the smart phone market was
heating up in 2010. In his article Michael Martin wrote a piece; "A
Veritable Army of Androids Coming this Year," as we was discussing how HTC
and other companies were going to mass produce Google Nexus One like clones
running the Google operating system, all with similar features and a $100s of
dollars less than Apples 3GS iPhone of Google's own Nexus One.
Michael
Martin noted that we could see at least a 100 (that's right 100, and he even
listed the names of these smart phone models in his article) "android
phone choices worldwide scheduled to be made available in 2010." Amazing,
so here comes the invasion of the Androids, wow - and although things are about
to get even more complicated, at least all the prices will be coming down now.
Apple
may have found a way to temporarily keep out some of the HTC clones by filing a
lawsuit with an international trade and patent organization. It hopes to
protect some 20 plus patents that it has for features which run on its touch
screen iPhone 3GS model. Hard to say if this will stop HTC in its tracks, most
likely not, but if it can just slow them down, it will help US smart phone
makers keep the price up long enough to get a decent return on their investment
for all the technology and research that has been put into these units.
The
Motorola Droid sells at $199 and that is a far-cry cheaper than the Apple 3GS,
and if we consider the real prices of technology, we know that they've managed
to build laptops now for $100. If a laptop can be built for $100, then
obviously this massive competition in the smart phone market will drive the
prices down to about what one would pay for a Texas Instrument scientific
calculator. Please consider all this.
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