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Almost all arguments on HN on this topic are ridiculously US-centric. As you can see from other comments, people wonder how the iphone can be "expensive" when i
by martythemaniak 16y ago
Almost all arguments on HN on this topic are ridiculously US-centric. As you can see from other comments, people wonder how the iphone can be "expensive" when it's "$199" vs "$179" for the Samsung Galaxy S.
HTC sent me a free Tattoo last year - 2.8" resistive screen, 340x240 resolution, slow processor etc. Any iPhone user (including myself - I kept on using my 1st gen iphone) would have snubbed this crummy phone, except there's hundreds of millions of people in the rest of the world who'll have phones like this as their first smartphone.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI just bought a £100 (not on contract) Android that blows away my iPhone 3G. I wasn't really expecting it to, I bought it as a stop-gap while I waited for the Nexus S and heard it was a good developer friendly device for the price but it's surpassed my expectations greatly. Related to the grandparent, this phone (Orange San Francisco) was made by ZTE, the Chinese telecoms giant who I've heard were originally blackballed from the Open Handset Alliance because HTC etc. were worried that they would provide too much price competition.