Samsung Galaxy Nexus II

[Hardik7]

It would be interesting to see about the price of this phone. I think they will price it at $349.

 

[Sushubh]

why? 350 was a heavily discounted price after six months of launch. google has traditionally sold the nexus phones for around 500 dollars.

 

[Hardik7]

I think they are being aggressive with $349 price and they will continue to be with nexus brand.

 

[Sushubh]

you can subsidize the cost of the tablet pc because they are heavily used for consuming media content that can generate money for you at a later stage. but phones? not so much. i expect it to be sold at similar prices to older nexus devices. between 500-550 dollars which is still very good compared to unlocked prices of the iPhone 5 and other models. Galaxy s iii sells for 650 dollars for the unlocked edition i think in usa. the interesting thing would be if they would continue to sell galaxy nexus and even lower the price. that could become a pretty vfm purchase considering it is still better than 80% of devices that are launched in the market today.but yeah. it would be cool if they launch it for 350 dollars though i think it is very unlikely looking at the general pricing of smartphones in the us market.

 

[Hardik7]

You are right about content oriented market dynamics for tablets but they are giving 5 mp cam instead of 8. No sd card slot and CPU is at 1.2 GHZ omap instead of Snapdragon. So I think they have the margins to price it at discounted price.

 

[Sushubh]

Would not make much of a difference considering the smartphone market in USA is a contract based one. There is no incentive in selling smartphones at low margins because they still would not sell well. You would just hurt your own profitability. :-D