$1500 for a flip phone!!!!??!?!??!??!

[Unforgiven]

I got the email to preorder this over the weekend. At first, I was intrigued. I don't need a larger phone screen, *but*, getting a similar screen size in a smaller form factor was intriguing. Plus, I'm nostalgic having owned an original RAZR from back in the day.

Well, I clicked through the email, and soon discovered it is a VZW exclusive, so I'm out already. I was VZW for a looooooong time, and the service and coverage are great, but I'm just not willing to pay that premium anymore since I get as good of coverage for a fraction of the price per month.

But, I'm not here to bash of VZW, because this is still a wicked cool looking phone. By the time I got to see the price on the preorder page it was $1499!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least the Galaxy fold gives you a big screen for the price of your first born. This is a glorified flip phone for cripes sakes.

What say you?

 

[Hadron]

The RAZR I guess? Well Sammy will be along next month to offer you a similar price for their flip phone.

If the technology really works, i.e. it's like a larger phone that you can fold over (so in principle more robust and less awkward to pocket) then I can see it being worth some premuim. But of course I'm saying that relative to stupid launch prices for current phones, and I don't accept that any of them are worth that, especially given how incrrememntal updates have been for some time now. But that's the problem, of course: in order to serve the shareholders the manufacturers respond to falling sales (because there is nothing interesting, and nothing people need) by raising prices, which makes new phones less appealing. And so something new by definition gets a silly price because it would otherwise undermine the very profitable overpriced iterative models.

 

[NightAngel79]

Seriously?!?!?! What is the deal with the price? Does it have AI and can run your social accounts for you, and text your relatives for you?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

The screen might be scratch proof. Nope.
The casing is bulletproof. Nope.
Flexible screen. Yup, that's it.