On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 21:11:58 Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 25 August 2013 14:46, Simon Whitehead <liquidigital@???> wrote:
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23793457
>>> Is any mobile phone worth $625, $675, $695 or $725.
>>
>> I paid ?429 for my phone nearly two years ago.
>
> I recently spend a similar amount.
At current exchange rates my phone (bought in January) cost me just over
$750.
I did consider carefully whether I was willing to spend that on a phone,
but in the end decided I was and I don't regret the decision.
> Any gadget is worth what people are willing to pay for them,
Absolutely, I use my phone more than I do any computer I own, I'm a low
user of calls and txts, it's the smartphone features (PDA/net access/music
player/camera/ebook reader etc.) that makes it worth that money and the
Edge would have been similar in that respect.
I'm not much of an early adopter, I like to see reviews before I pay out
my hard earned cash, but if the Edge had delivered on most of what it
promised I would have considered one once they were in production.
> and most people end up paying that sort of money for a phone, it's just
> spread out over two years so they have a very distorted view of the
> price of a smartphone.
At the time I bough my current phone to get it "free" would have cost 960
UKP over two years (40/month), it's true that for that I would have got a
ridiculous amount of minutes and txts that I would never have used, but
it's still close to twice the price I paid for the phone.
> Not being tied into a two year contract makes it worth buying the phone
> SIM free IMO.
I agree with you, but it does depend on your usage pattern. I'm paying
10/month currently for more minutes and txts than I use and about the
right amount of mobile data. So over the two years I would of been in
contract I'm saving several hundred pounds.
However if you make a lot of calls/txts and would be paying 25+/month for
them anyway then paying a higher monthly tariff and getting your phone
included in the deal can sometimes make sense.
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> On 25/08/13 22:12, Tim B wrote:
> > Phone+laptop+desktop. That's a very big claim, and not one I think can
> > be supported, given the widely varied use cases.
>
> It's not specced to be a media workstation or video editing PC, sure. It
> would serve just fine as a day-to-day PC though, and has a higher spec
> than my media PC, netbook and (almost) my laptop.
My phone (2GB RAM, quad core processor) is at least as well specced
as any device I own, and better than most of them.
Andy
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