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- Namtaru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11And somehow, with all those contracts, it still costs [insert a price other than free] to txt msg? You can put your entire playlist on an iPhone, but ya can't just pick a song to be your ringtone, because that cuts the cell company out of the deal. How much sense does that make?
Cell phone companies are wayyyyy too greedy for their own good. With this many phones shipped, in 2 years approx one billion people will be threatening to switch their cell phone carrier. The hardware is in place, now its time for the cell phone revolution. AOL was charging people a ton of money PER MINUTE to be on a DIALUP connection. What happened to them? Their business model was doomed to fail because the internet wanted to be free of artificial barriers.
Time for the cell phone revolution I think. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did anyone else get confused by the description at first? I thought the video rental store had sold cell phones.
- sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Headline should read - "One billion brain tumors were shipped out in 2006".
Fixed. - Pelapp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I must say, I can't quite understand how the US, can so so cheap regarding computer hardware etc, but still be so far behind regarding cell phones. Looking at the points Namtaru listed, i can now better appriciate how spoiled we are in the mobile phone department here in Europe (Denmark in my case). You can't choose your own ringtone from MP3's you have on your own phone ?
Overhere the regular plans are about 10-15 cents/min, and $20 for unlimited txt msg (SMS). The big thing now are unlimited plans for using your Slingbox or Orb account on your mobile, unlimited Skype, Ebay, MSN etc. And most 3G carriers have a few TV stations included in their plans.
You have something to look forward to, so raise your voices! :) - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cingular lets you make you own ringtones sir b/c they dont lock-out features ummmmmmmmmmm like Verizon
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's scary is I heard somewhere that it takes 75kg of raw material to create just one mobile phone.
75 billion kg ... bit of a waste considering most will be thrown out in a few years. - otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how much is that in terms of filled 2007 VW Beetles?
100? 200? - aroundtown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11 billion shipped.... 900,000,000 million hanging in store displays.
- walterd93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was expected.
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is it still commonplace in the US for the receiving person also to pay for the call?
I never really understood this - why? So that the cell company makes more money, yeah, but other than that? - Zique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Vast majority of those phones are sold in areas where unlocked phones are the standard, so no, there won't be billion people changing their carriers in two years and mp3 playback isn't a problem
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because, monkey-boy, the future of the internet and many consumer electronics devices (all music and video recording and playback devices, GPS, etc etc) is on one device - the mobile phone. This is very, very significant.
- MrColdheart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11 bil shipped.. but doesn't mean 1 bil sold
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On behalf of mobile phone software developers like me, everywhere, may I say: NICE.
- latz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cellphone Companies are just making way to much money if you ask me. With selling numbers like these, cellphones should cost at least 50% less.
- dollars5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But it is not yet released.
- akyra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1All the more reason for Apple making an iPhone.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How many were from the http://svg.org/special/svg_phones list ?
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apple desperately wants another 1% of another market, just like computers.
- KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to over one billion for all of 2006"
who cares?
buried, lame. - thegsa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3i feel poor, i don't have a cell phone
one question which company has the best service in LA? - Ransomowris, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Steve Jobs already told us this at the Macworld keynote.
All hail Steve!
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