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Great article to get your blood boil, and I recommend you check it out, but this one liner really got my waving my fist in the air:
It all adds up, and the result is that 3G W-CDMA mobile phones are more
expensive than they could be. Estimates vary, but operators, vendors
and analysts reckon that up to 25 percent of the wholesale value of the
basic 3G W-CDMA phone is made up of royalty charges, said Pyramid
Research analyst Ozgur Aytar.Source: Reuters
This is sheer idiocy.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
