The phones displayed here are extremely overpriced. If one is not that brand conscious then he can look at Indian brand like Karbonn A9. Not advertising. Its really good phone and can take on competition from all the brands listed in this article. One should be extremely cautious about buying these overpriced stuff. In next one year these phones will be half of the price one've brought with technological advances. The world is moving towards mobile computing. In few years mobile will have processors like i3, i5 sort of thing and storage space running in terabytes. For e.g. nokia launched 40 m.p. camera phone. No one expected such a resolution camera phone. Its other thing that it will not succeed due to its price in market. But the concept was good but too late to enter. If it was priced around 10k it would have been a big hit and given all the camera manufacturers tough time. But the problem with these MNC's is that they look every thing from dollar prespective whereas indian looks from his currency prespective. For them ONE dollar is ONE rupee. But for indian it is 50. That is why apple products do not sell in much numbers even though its excellent. Overpricing kills them. If they sell here at low price then reverse smuggling will start. People will smuggle from india to america and other countries.
Re: overpriced phones
by Zeng on Jul 31, 2012 05:30 PM
Few facts for you: 1. Karbonn and all other Indian companies that can't even find a proper name to their firm, simply buy the mobile from a Taiwan company and add labels and sell them as Indian. They do zero R&D and there is nothing Indian about these crappy phones.
2. People buy these expensive phone simply to show off / just for the pleasure of it. In most developed countries people change mobiles every year or so, just for the fun of having new one. In India, rich people do the same. Gadgets are more like toys than anything else.
3. Most brands simply phase out old phones and introduce new ones. Most reputed companies only give 10%-20% discounts when newer models are introduced. No major company will sell their product at 50% price after one year. Keep on dreaming.
4. Mega pixels is only one of the minor factors in evaluating a camera. Your computer / mobile screen can't show more than 2 mega pixels, so that is all you need - unless you want to print them as banners. A mobile cam can never give good enough picture like a SLR camera, it is the sensors, lens and so many other things that make the difference. Who will take a camera without optial zoom seriously?
5. Your Karbon is never going to fel like an iphone - no matter what the specs say. Quality is not just speciaifications. You get what you pay for.
6. Please don't try to teach anyone the conversion rate. You think everyone other than you are fools?
Re: overpriced phones
by Zeng on Jul 31, 2012 05:30 PM
Few facts for you: 1. Karbonn and all other Indian companies that can't even find a proper name to their firm, simply buy the mobile from a Taiwan company and add labels and sell them as Indian. They do zero R&D and there is nothing Indian about these crappy phones.
2. People buy these expensive phone simply to show off / just for the pleasure of it. In most developed countries people change mobiles every year or so, just for the fun of having new one. In India, rich people do the same. Gadgets are more like toys than anything else.
3. Most brands simply phase out old phones and introduce new ones. Most reputed companies only give 10%-20% discounts when newer models are introduced. No major company will sell their product at 50% price after one year. Keep on dreaming.
4. Mega pixels is only one of the minor factors in evaluating a camera. Your computer / mobile screen can't show more than 2 mega pixels, so that is all you need - unless you want to print them as banners. A mobile cam can never give good enough picture like a SLR camera, it is the sensors, lens and so many other things that make the difference. Who will take a camera without optial zoom seriously?
5. Your Karbon is never going to fel like an iphone - no matter what the specs say. Quality is not just speciaifications. You get what you pay for.
6. Please don't try to teach anyone the conversion rate. You think everyone other than you are fools?
perhaps rediff thinking in terms of paise not rupees so they are using slash word as Rs 500- 50000 paise and 1000 -100000 so the title "prices are slashed ".
I need Speaker, long battery life and dual SIM...also no tension of the phone being faulty or going into disrepair etc..i bought one for Rs 1350 and is sleek too... i do not want to access net on phone.. too small
Re: Slash means about 20% of the cost
by sukhmeet singh on Jul 29, 2012 09:41 AM
ur correct.. seems rediff has nothing else on smartphones so it copy-pasted prices!
I bought a Nokia Lumia in May 2012 for 22000 and they are writing 23000....anyways a difference of 500-600 shouldnt be seen as price slash...the prices varies from store to store...this is a perfect article full of nonsese as expected from rediff...
Another poor way of advertising. 500 Rs. down is not SLASHING of price. Such price difference may be found across stores. Sorry to inform rediff, I did not look beyond 3 slides to realise this farce.
