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It's Never a Good Time to Buy an Android Phone [Locked] |
Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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1/25/12 3:21pm
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It's Never a Good Time to Buy an Android Phone |
I was watching this Technobufflo video last night and it made me laugh because it's so true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiH280jkB4g
Oh, the Galaxy S II is coming...
Oh, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket is coming...
Oh, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD is coming...
Oh, the Motorola Razr is coming...
Oh, the Motorola Razr Maxx is coming...
Oh, the Transformer Prime TF201 is coming...
Oh, the Transformer Prime TF700 is coming...
You expect that when you buy a phone someone else will probably one up it a few months later. But it would be nice if the manufacture you bought the phone wasn't that one that made your phone seem obsolete two months later. Haha.
Android manufactures should probably focus less on spewing the marketing with a new high end phone every month or two and try to hold back a bit and try to pack a few more features into the next phone before releasing it. |
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Date Posted:
1/25/12 3:21pm
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It's Never a Good Time to Buy an Android Phone |
Especially since providers tend to lock you in for 2 yrs...
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Lithium_Power  Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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Lokkie_the_Fierce posted:
Especially since providers tend to lock you in for 2 yrs...
No kidding 
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sliyurs  Title: Official VN Stalker
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Registered: 2003-1-9 21:27:11
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Date Posted:
1/25/12 3:21pm
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I have been holding on to an OG Droid because everytime I decide what phone I want a new and better one comes out.
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Date Posted:
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True.dat but it is the same for computer hardware. Or TVs. Annoying product rotation cluttering waste dumps all over the world :/
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G0d Posts: 43
Registered: 2001-8-20 22:33:19
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Date Posted:
1/25/12 3:21pm
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It's Never a Good Time to Buy an Android Phone |
Im still clinging onto my nearly 4 year old (3 year contract) jailbroke iphone 3gs. does what I need it to do, and does pretty much everything else that any other phone can do. It's consumers that drive the market, and 'apparently' there is a helluva market for a new phone every 6-12 months. Who does this? I've had the same cordless phone in my house for almost a decade. It ain't broke, why am I 'fixing' it?
And I bet you it lasts 5 times longer than any new junk that has been spewed out in the last decade haha. Funny how that works.
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I gladly upgrade my device every 2 years when my contract is up, but I've heard of people who break contract to switch phones... seems crazy.
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Ah-Schoo Title: Fuzzy Caterpillar of Friendliness
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Phones as fashion. =/
A buddy of mine was doing tech support for our local cell/internet/cable monopoly and even though he was supposedly internet tech support, he had a quota of phone sales to make on inbound calls. If their phone was over 3 months old the policy was to let the customer know their phone would soon be obsolete. If it was over 6 months old it was mandatory for them to use the word 'obsolete.'
The other thing was that if the call was for actual tech support his manager told him to transfer every time. (Back to the same exact queue he was in.) Sales quotas were the more important metric than actually doing tech support.
He quit in disgust. (The phone stuff was official policy, the dumping calls was an asshole manager competing with the other managers.)
Same thing happened when we worked at Dell though, they added sales quotas to tech support and made it a higher priority than doing tech support. We'd get berated for lack of sales, never mind that we had top 1% stats for resolution and call times, and stacks of 'kudos' emails from customers. Then Dell took the money (massive gov't incentives handed out to bring their business here) and moved all our jobs to the Philippines.
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Acao  Posts: 123
Registered: 2004-11-29 18:50:07
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Date Posted:
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G0d posted:
Im still clinging onto my nearly 4 year old (3 year contract) jailbroke iphone 3gs. does what I need it to do, and does pretty much everything else that any other phone can do. It's consumers that drive the market, and 'apparently' there is a helluva market for a new phone every 6-12 months. Who does this? I've had the same cordless phone in my house for almost a decade. It ain't broke, why am I 'fixing' it?
And I bet you it lasts 5 times longer than any new junk that has been spewed out in the last decade haha. Funny how that works.
I don't get the gotta have the latest and greatest deal with technology these days either. My home phones are two over ten year old 900 MHZ cordless phones that work just fine and a well over 50 year old Bell phone that I could use to beat an intruder into senselessness and then use to call the police. My computers are a 2.8 GHZ P4 and a 2.66 GHZ Core 2 Duo. My truck is a 1997 Explorer. I seem to like old things. 
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Sworks1 Posts: 54
Registered: 2009-3-14 16:00:33
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Date Posted:
1/25/12 3:21pm
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It's Never a Good Time to Buy an Android Phone |
G0d posted:
Im still clinging onto my nearly 4 year old (3 year contract) jailbroke iphone 3gs. does what I need it to do, and does pretty much everything else that any other phone can do. It's consumers that drive the market, and 'apparently' there is a helluva market for a new phone every 6-12 months. Who does this? I've had the same cordless phone in my house for almost a decade. It ain't broke, why am I 'fixing' it?
And I bet you it lasts 5 times longer than any new junk that has been spewed out in the last decade haha. Funny how that works.
The same people who have a family of 4 and needed a 6k sq foot house they're getting kicked out of. The same people camping out in some park somewhere complaining about rich people.
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