$20 Cellphones in Two Years

If you ’re tired of adorn in the cool , most expensive prison cell telephone on the grocery , the winds of change may be blowing . Looks like splintering companies have been banding together to bring us phones as flashy as $ 20 by 2007 . Promising us the quality we ’re wonted to , the troupe are saying that the key to make lower - priced handsets is building in fewer feature , and are now working to do things such as mix key functions into a individual chip for just $ 5 . Not bad . powerful now , telephone producers employ about 150 constituent to set up a phone ; this would obviously ratchet down that down — hopefully to around 50 components .

With output prices at that storey , the sweeping price of a French telephone , which includes dispersion and other costs , will be at or below $ 20 , ” said Horst Pratsch , vice United States President for Entry Platforms at German chip God Almighty Infineon . “ Most consumer get their phone directly from their wireless operator , and the retail price is found on the sweeping cost to mobile carriers . ”

Wo n’t it be nice when the wireless operator do n’t have us all by the balls ?

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