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Originally Posted by Ed@Brighthand
> Do you think smartphones will be hit as hard or harder than the rest of the
> cell phone industry?
Smartphone sales will be less affected. Sales of regular phones in the U.S. have been in a year-over-year decline since this summer. At the same time, sales of smartphones are up. The smartphone market isn't growing as crazy fast as it has at some points in the past, but it's still showing double-digit growth.
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I can tell you, as someone in the wireless business, and as someone who has been in the business for 11 years that we're just not seeing the numbers and growth everyone is talking about with Smartphones. At a sales meeting recently, we were discussing the numbers and the general consensus is that people are starting to revert back to cheap feature-flips such as the Razr and phones of that ilk.
Smartphones haven't been commoditized enough yet to be the free phones that people will be willing to go for plus they still need to tack a data plan on after activation. I don't know how long the trend is going to last, but that's what we're seeing and our numbers bear it out.
None of that means that smart phones are going away, but the market for them isn't where it was and the cheapo phone is definitely 100% back and getting better. It'll be interesting to see how long that trend lasts.
Again, this is only what we're seeing and I don't know if we're representative of an entire industry, but I just wanted to put that out there.
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