UK: Nokia 1208 is only £24.99 SIM-free at MobileFun!
By Ben Robinson on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 1:40 PM PST In Devices, Financial/Corporate News, Nokia
Another UK offer, and on this occasion, the time-limitation is “during this week” – however it is a good bargain, given you get a colour-screen, SIM-free Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for £24.99! MobileFun are the purveyors of this offer.
It seems miraculous that handsets are now at such a budget price – admittedly Supermarkets have been pushing prices down for a while. What I’d like to see now is where the bottoming out of prices occurs – I think (don’t quote me) that one UK Supermarket had a DVD player (another commodity) for about £18, and that was pretty much the limit on how cheap I have seen them – so do we think that Mobiles could cross that threshold too? I’m not talking about special offers or vouchers, rather just the normal cost a given unit is selling for in a shop. Who knows, we may even be there – readers if you’ve seen cheaper, whack a comment on to the end of the post!
If you want to check out the Nokia 1208 at MobileFun, go here.
Actually Asda had an offer on last year where they were selling DVD players for £9. Not sure if you can still get them for that price.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23382984-details/A+DVD+player+for+just+%C2%A39+at+ASDA/article.do
Truth of the matter is that Mobile Phones like DVD players are actually very cheap to manufacture and we have all been paying for products that are over valued in relation to their “actual” manufacturing cost.
I call it the Big Mac Theory. i.e. A Big Mac only costs 20p to make (yep, that’s right! the meat, the cheese all the ingredients, etc..) but sold for £2.00.
It’s about time all these technological devices dropped their price. Also, mobilefun buy from the same suppliers as us and we are both paying 18 GBP (ex Vat) from DataSelect. (insider info)