I think Samsung has priced it like this to promote their BADA OS big time. Thats the reason they have axed Spica with slightly better proccy and resolution and replaced it with Galaxy as Spica was absolute VFM.Lord Nemesis said:Samsung Galaxy 3/Wildfire/SE X10 Mini are not at all worth getting for the price to sell for. If you want an android phone, stick to ones that have 480 x 320 or 800 x 480 resolutions. HTC Legend and Moto Milestone are the bare min you should look at. If you want a phone around 14k~17k, then take a look at Samsung Wave for sure. Much better than any of the Android phones that sell in that price range. The funny thing is that Wave has hardware that's superior to many of the high end offerings of all platforms and none of the phone manufacturers have an phone with half decent hardware in this price range despite using a free to license and open platform like Android.
DarkAngel said:I think Samsung has priced it like this to promote their BADA OS big time. Thats the reason they have axed Spica with slightly better proccy and resolution and replaced it with Galaxy as Spica was absolute VFM.
Also they do not have a decent alternative in their own staple and are very careful no other sub 20k phone is better than the Wave. Its the best phone in terms of H/W after the Galaxy S and the HTC Desire in the Indian market IINM.
madnav said:^ you are correct
the price is subsidized, kind of, as this is rather a launch of Bada OS with that phone.
If all the companies have such a margin then why wouldn't even one pass it on to customers to win the volumes battle and put pressure on others?Lord Nemesis said:Its pretty obvious that Samsung is promoting Wave with a better price point, I have stated the same thing in a couple of other threads previously, but the thing is that hardware parts and assembly costs less for $200 for any of these phones. So why is there still that much of a difference. I can understand there being a 4~5k difference and a lack of a couple of features in Galaxy S to make Wave attractive, but Wave has same or better/more hardware in every way and still costs 10~11k less than Galaxy S. For that matter why doesn't any other manufacturer have anything anywhere close? A high end android offering should be possible at the 20~21k mark if they choose to. The only explanation is that these manufacturers are choosing to charge a premium for android phones just like Apple does for iPhone. The cost benefits for the free to license OS is not being passed on to the customers. Phones based on a licensed OS like Windows Mobile cost the same or less than ones based on Android.
may be they are fearful for " if low price introduced , no 1 is going to jump for high price section " & creating unofficial cartel for looting customersDarkAngel said:If all the companies have such a margin then why wouldn't even one pass it on to customers to win the volumes battle and put pressure on others?
There are now 4 major mobiles manufacturers who churn out Android phones namely: HTC, Samsung, SE, Motorola.
They are surely gonna milk the premium segment cow as far as they can. I'm not certain but isn't that what helps them investing in RnD ?Lord Nemesis said:Its pretty obvious that Samsung is promoting Wave with a better price point, I have stated the same thing in a couple of other threads previously, but the thing is that hardware parts and assembly costs less for $200 for any of these phones. So why is there still that much of a difference. I can understand there being a 4~5k difference and a lack of a couple of features in Galaxy S to make Wave attractive, but Wave has same or better/more hardware in every way and still costs 10~11k less than Galaxy S. For that matter why doesn't any other manufacturer have anything anywhere close? A high end android offering should be possible at the 20~21k mark if they choose to. The only explanation is that these manufacturers are choosing to charge a premium for android phones just like Apple does for iPhone. The cost benefits for the free to license OS is not being passed on to the customers. Phones based on a licensed OS like Windows Mobile cost the same or less than ones based on Android.
You forgot that Wave has a 3.3" screen whereas Galaxy S has a 4" screen. I think that demands a bit of a premium.Lord Nemesis said:Its pretty obvious that Samsung is promoting Wave with a better price point, I have stated the same thing in a couple of other threads previously, but the thing is that hardware parts and assembly costs less for $200 for any of these phones. So why is there still that much of a difference. I can understand there being a 4~5k difference and a lack of a couple of features in Galaxy S to make Wave attractive, but Wave has same or better/more hardware in every way and still costs 10~11k less than Galaxy S.
Sadly the i7500 and i5700 are EOL now. Out of stock and near impossible to find one in India.rahul21 said:if you want to use your phone for great gaming enviroment only then buy BADA .
Wildfire is 3.2 inch but with resolution of 2.5 inch , that kind of resolution in not supported by many Android apps , so 4get wildfire alltogether
get an samsung i7500 instead