yet they’re still priced and treated culturally like luxury toys

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    If you go for used devices, you can quite easily get an outdated entry level phone for free and a decently useable one for <€30.

    You can even get new entry level phones for as cheap as €70.

    So it’s very much a market where you can spend whatever you want.

    A flagship phone is priced like a luxurity toy, because that’s exactly what it is.

    And an entry level phone is incredibly cheap so that people who have no money can still get one. €70 with 2 years of usage is less than €3/month (realistically though, if you are in this kind of situation, you hold on to a phone for much longer).

    Over here, if you are poor enough, you’ll even get a free phone plan.