Would you pay double for your favourite mobile device?
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 3:00AM You can think of this as a question of the day if you like. Would you pay double the amount you did for your preferred mobile device? Think about how much use it gets and then consider doubling the asking price to see if you still regard it as value for money.
I have to say that for the use my iPhone gets, I would genuinely consider paying £800 for it because I use it so much. I would, however, not do the same for my iPad or Kindle because they do not receive the same amount of usage.
It is all about the smartphone for me and when I consider GPS, email, social networking, calendars, games, eBooks, news, phone calls, instant messages, notes, texts, music, video, podcasts, camera and… shall I go on? When I consider what is available to me, and used, throughout every day I can’t imagine not having I with me.
So, yes I would pay a lot for the best smartphone I can get, but everything else is a mere luxury to me when it comes to mobile devices.
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Reader Comments (11)
Never. There becomes a reality sense check . For that sort of money I can pay for bills and food .
Considering your love/hate relationship with that iPhone, I can't see how you could justify paying double. At best it should be a break-even value (or less).
Somehow I can still justify it for the amount of use it gets.
No, never. With Android and in the early days of Symbian, I had choices as to where to spend my money. With IOS you have no choices.
Well, the 4S *was* £699, which is quite a bit and does make you think twice, but I funded it by selling my iPhone 4 for a pretty penny and also selling the Galaxy S2 that I got on upgrade from Orange. I ended up slightly in profit (my company pays the phone contract, not me personally). I guess I would potentially pay about £100 more for a 128Mb version (I wish).
However, would I pay £1398? No.
£800 would buy you a great laptop.
If that's how much a phone cost I'd still be using a brickphone.
I would pay full price for any of the £200+ smartphones up front. I'd either go contract (which I did) or buy a budget Android smartphone.
Let's not forget. You walk around with an £800 phone. Guess what. Muggings would rise!
Muggings would rise!
I agree — although, given the amount of kit that some carry on a daily basis (just look at commuters' bags on the way to and from London...), I'm surprised that there are not more instances of it anyway.
Depends whether you're asking if I'd still buy one if all smartphones/tablets increased or just the one I have.
The answer to both questions is no, but more emphatic for the latter.
I think there are plenty of phone-related muggings, but mostly kids targetting kids. I routinely carry over a grand's worth of kit around but luckily I'm fairly built and have world-class grump-face, so muggers tend to jump out, take one look and say "Oh sorry; thought you were someone else" ;o)
I routinely carry over a grand's worth of kit
Sheesh — make-up doesn't come cheap...
This may actually happen to use if the service providers stop their subsidies. iPhones would go up in price but not iPads. Yes, I would pay double for an iPhone.