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February 20, 2005
My Kingdom for a Nokia 6620
The first service that Mobile Research is going to offer; the one we are crunching to get finished for launch by CTIA on March 14, requires a LOT of mobile phones for development. So Charles and I went out today to buy a bunch of phones. We are in a time crunch so the plan was to just start buying phones and find a better/cheaper model down the road after the launch.
So much for Plan A. We went to 3 Cingular stores and they wouldn't sell us the phones. Full price retail (as advertised) and the wouldn't sell them to us. We got several different reasons, but basically it comes down to the fact that they are not in the business of selling handsets; but airtime.
I understand that, but I am a subscriber and they won't sell me the great smartphone with killer graphics and nifty features for full price. How do they expect that they are ever going to get any revenue from the higher end services and applications if they'll only sell you a new phone if you've waited a year since your last one?
On to Plan B ...
Posted by David Adams at February 20, 2005 05:43 AM