HTC Desire S Sim Free Unlocked Mobile Phone-Muted Black for £273.24 @ PrePayMania
Looks like a pricing error. On there homepage the phone is listed for £319.99 but when you click on the phone for more details, the page shows the price at £273.24 which is a bargain i reckon. Ive just completed Paypal checkout at £273.24.
5% Quidco cashback aswell.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentEdited By: royals on Jul 20, 2011 02:14
tell me what thing that IPHONE can do that this can't do??
tell me what thing that IPHONE can do that this can't do??
look good 8)
You wouldn't happen to have an IPhone by any chance?
Way too big? It's about the same size as an IPhone.
Price? It's cheaper than an IPhone.
Connectivity to non Apple stuff? That's a bonus, not tied to iTunes or any other DRM rubbish. Can also bluetooth files (something Steve Jobs considers far too dangerous for iPhone users).
Androids offer a lot more flexibility and better VFM without the stigma of being a designer sheep phone.
hope it goes through!
So without software this is just an expensive paperweight X)
Edited By: simplyjimbo on Jul 20, 2011 08:23
how to lose friends and alienate people by 7iain7
Edited By: 7iain7 on Jul 20, 2011 09:32: cos i wanted to
Bit like the Motorola RAZR from a few years back ... originally a high price status phone due to is (at that time) extreme thinness etc enhaced, I think by it being black when most other phones were gery ... then a year or so later it was everywhere, even on PAYG.
However, the analogy that I think fits iPhone best (and which will doubtless irritated the fanbois) is that its become the windows 95 of smartphones ... their may be better alternatives but it does an acceptable job and theres a huge ecosystem behind it.
So where do you get a new, unlocked iPhone for £273.24, or anywhere near that price?
So without software this is just an expensive paperweight X)
Android won't die. If it comes to it, they'll license stuff from Apple. That's how these things work. Android are activating around 500,000 handsets a day.
So without software this is just an expensive paperweight X)
Android won't die. If it comes to it, they'll license stuff from Apple. That's how these things work. Android are activating around 500,000 handsets a day.
I agree Android won't die, just a comment. Licensing of products is what a lot of companies benefit from, Apple and many others rake it in just from their patents.
So without software this is just an expensive paperweight X)
Some more details about the patents:
http://www.dailytech.com/EDITORIAL+How+HTC+May+Survive+Apples+Brutal+Legal+Assault/article22184.htm
Basically the first one maybe thrown out since another company already implemented it beforehand.
On top of this ITC also said that Apple infringed the two S3 patents and HTC owns S3. It means Apple will need to re-design parts of the iPhone or change the parts. OTH,it also means that Apple has shipped many products with the infringing parts and hence may need to compensate HTC.
Nokia also won against Apple:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/06/nokia-wins-patent-war-against-apple/
Kodak won against Apple:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20080641-17/kodak-wins-patent-battle-against-apple/
It looks Google has said they are going to support HTC now:
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=103004B5B8XP
There was an item on this on a BBC R5 business program which said basically the problem was 10 years ago a mobile phone might use things covered by 5 or 6 patents but now they estimated that a smartphone could be affected by upto 15,000 patents. Think it will turn out that everyone infiringes everyone else so everyone will have to sign cross-licensing agreements with everyone else
Don't think it's a misprice - prices are forever falling but this seems like an excellent deal for right now. The Google Nexus S comes out at 10% more than this without the Sense UI.