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Originally Posted by efjay
Take away the typical PPCT/Xda/custom rom flashing user and there is virtually no "high end" market in the US, everybody seemingly wants a $99 phone. The Samsung Instinct HD was priced at $249 and it was called too expensive, T-Mobile and Sprint's TP2's went for $350 and they were slammed for their price, when Verizon priced their's at $199 after rebate they were hailed and there are now claims that they are sold out of their TP2. Without a carrier subsidy the HD2 will undoubtedly have abysmal sales which will only be more fodder for the "WM is dead" crowd.
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I had hoped that the move toward feature phones vs. dumb phones would change that - people would understand the value in those features and pay more. However carriers didn't keep the prices high for long - they dropped them and now people expect gold for the price of copper. In the US atleast!