Comments on: This is enormous

By: TFG

TFG — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:08:02 +0000

Charles, I think they’ll just sell the VZW-branded phones for less than they do today. We both know the massive margins they have in them, and a small hit on that revenue will be more than offset by people buying plans on the ‘open’ VZW net.

Funny, I was just looking at new smartphones. The Mogul doesn’t appeal, but the Samsung i760 does. As always, too, the Palm OS team has completely failed to advance the ball in well over two years. Very sad.

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:44:00 +0000

Sounds like they want to be AT&T. Glad (now) my wife made me switch to them from Sprint.

By: charles austin

charles austin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:21 +0000

I’m still not sure how they are going to sell phones once every knock-off entrepreneur can offer anything they have for less. But then again, I don’t get the iPhone mania either. I’ll get back to you on how well my HTC Mogul works out after I get it activated and have a chance to play with it.

By: TFG

TFG — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:21:59 +0000

I’d just guess that they leave it up to the users/customers. Buyer beware, just like the internet (or DSL from ATT or DOCSIS from Time-Warner) is today.

They’ll still sell plenty of phones. They’ve got a generation trained to do it. Just like there are still people paying rental fees to Ma Bell for their bakelite rotaries hanging on the kitchen wall. What there will be is a market for random devices that work on the cell network that aren’t phones, so to speak. Small space, initially, but lucrative to some.

By: charles austin

charles austin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:36:32 +0000

Scott, I welcome this as well, but have real concerns about how they are going to pull it off. How they keep malicious apps, trojan horses, back doors and the like off their network will be interesting to watch. Oh, and I assume they understand they will never sell another cell phone again.