The price of those devices is a shame (all smartphones, not only this one).
I've been asked by a customer to find a good deal for 10 Sony Xperia Z
_at the very launch moment_.
I met various "dealers", "brokers", ... at Ce-Bit and other places,
working on mobile/tablet/... products. This is obviously a Mafia.
Prices varies from countries to countries (EU is a country as a whole
but Italy is a special case as 10% of the delivered material is "lost"
somewhere before being received, so the prices to Italian resellers are
higher) and depending on the amount (nobody there discuss below 10.000
units).
The price of the Sony Xperia Z was announced to the public as between
650 and 750 € at that time.
Contacting Sony directly as a company, I didn't managed to have a cent
of discount.
But I managed to find a reseller that sold me such a device (authentic)
at 256 € Excl. VAT (without any kind of recurring fee, subscription or
whatever, and just one unit without any hope on potential future sales),
with bill, guarantee and so on.
"Smartphones" is the new kind of drug of modern times. People is
addicted (most people change of phone every year !) and so the prices
are _not_ related to their actual value, but to the level of addiction
of their customers.
The main issue I see with this project is that it is "only" 3G, not
4G... for a new mobile to be launched in 2014, it might be a problem.
The actual sell price (next year) might be very different of the current
announced pre-sale price.
And for me, 550 € (750 $) worth my freedom and my control on my data and
devices.
Le 04.08.2013 09:34, Alain Knaff a écrit :
A pity only that it is so expensive... That's
almost double than the
Nokia N900 when it was new :-(
On 2013-08-01 14:22, Thierry Coutelier wrote:
For those who always wanted a real Linux phone.
Ubuntu is trying to do it by a public funding:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/461046/wdgi/4204824
http://www.indiegogo.com/project/badge/461046/4204824
<http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/461046/wdgi/4204824>
Spread the word ...
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