Massive Choices for Smartphones Can Be a Major Headache for the Consumer
There was a man who was a travelling equipment salesman. He purchased a smartphone, the Motorola Droid to be exact, to be able to keep up on things while he was on the road. He purchased this back in November and ever since then he’s been going through what we all feel sometimes, some buyer’s remorse.
So what was the cause of his buyer’s remorse? It was specifically the Droid X.
This man, Gene Paik, stated that he thought the next big thing was the Droid. After that he then saw that there was the Droid Incredible and then finally after that the Droid X. Now he knows that things are going to just continue to rollout. Six months down the line they’re just going to come out with something else and something better. He just feels like he just “doesn’t know anymore.”
The Droid X is an extremely powerful phone which has a large 4.3 inch screen as well as a 1GHz processor and the phone is going to be available starting next month with Verizon. The Droid X is just one in the latest lines of Smartphones and it definitely goes into the higher end of the smartphone line. The phone’s actually been touted as more of a super phone which is finally capable of taking market share of people that would otherwise purchase the Apple iPhone. The latest iPhone just went on sale.
The mounting parade of all of the Smartphones hitting the market is purely indicative of the massive innovation that’s happening with the market. This is one of the highest rated sectors of growth for the cell phone carriers and the manufacturers that are making the phones. Though like Gene it’s also a headache for a lot of the consumers that are left wondering exactly when they should take the smartphone plunge.
A user of Twitter tweeted that just when he had made the decision to go with the Incredible his carrier Verizon just came out with another amazing Droid phone. Now he’s officially torn.
Let’s be honest though, the upgrades in technology are far from anything new and we’ve seen it in the past with the advancements in PC technology. The smartphone market joined the fray and has been seeing the speedy advancements over the past few years. Though in just the past 9 months of those 3 years we’ve seen the frequency go up at an alarming pace with the high end of the smartphone market. This is even more the case with the ones that are running the Google Android operating system. Believe it or not the pace has been just about monthly.
Here’s a small breakdown of what we’ve been getting:
• November gave us the Motorola Droid
• The Nexus One followed that in January
• After that we got the HTC Incredible in April
• Both the Sprint EVO 4G and the MyTouch Slide 3G just now went on sale
Coming up after this is the release of another very powerful Android phone along with the Samsung Captivate which is going to hit the market within the coming months.
It’s something that can really get the consumers confused. I know that I get more and more questions every day from the consumer asking, “What should I do?” When it comes down to it though that’s simply just the way that the market is. At any one moment you just have to make the decision and just jump in.
For the consumers of cell phones it’s going to be a little more complicated than deciding on the next TV or even your next computer. For most subscribers they will have that option to sign up for the two year contract in order to get a subsidized phone and the penalties in place is what will deter almost all consumers from jumping over to the next phone.
Frankly that’s something that can hit really tough with the consumer, seeing that their purchase was upstaged within months of their purchase.
Palick talked about how it wouldn’t be so bad if it was every year or two but now things are coming out every 3-6 months of time. Palick said it perhaps the best when he stated that, “It’s nuts now!”
One of the regional VPs for Verizon simply stated tha the manufacturers and the cell phone carriers are simply just giving the consumer what they want the most, being more and more choices. It’s a continued effort to try to keep the pace with what the market is demanding and the smartphone market is one of the largest growing sectors of anything. It’s now more than ever that people want to have choice and you can be rest assured that it’s going to continue to be given.
The VP of Motorolas consumer experience marketing, Meliss Gardner might of hit it on the head when she talked about how smartphones are becoming more and more like the shoes and clothes. They are the trendy products that are and have to constantly evolve. There’s still an amazingly high rate of growth room in the smartphone marekt as women as well as some of the more older consumers are starting to upgrade. All of this means to just cotninue to expect more and more phones and at a very rapid pace.
Unfortunately for Gene Paik and the other consumers for him new phones are going to continue to come out all of the time. You’re going to continue to see more and more innovation which is going to lead to more and more smartphones hitting the market. It’s about the latest and it’s about the greatest so you have to be sure to keep up. That’s exactly what the market is going to provide.
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