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Entry Level Phone

notme

Nov 22, 2004, 10:51 PM
I was reading reviews on a couple of phones, and some people use the term "good entry level phone".

What the crap is an entry level phone?

Is it a phone for someone to learn how to use a cell phone with?

How is it different from a 'professional' phone and what are the professional phones?

How do I know when I should no longer use an entry level phone?

Why is this such a totally idotioc, rediculous thread?

IDIOTS 😈 🤣
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Rich Brome

Nov 23, 2004, 12:22 AM
entry-level = low-end

"Entry-level" is a term invented by marketing types concerned that "low-end" has a negative connotation. "Low-end" implies cheap or poor quality, while "entry-level" sounds much nicer. It's like saying "affordable" instead of "cheap", or "simple" instead of "lacking any features whatsoever". 😉
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notme

Nov 23, 2004, 4:27 PM
Thats the idiotic part. A phone is a phone.

A camera on a phone is worthless and makes it no more of a phone. After they all get board with there new toy camera in a week or two, its just a phone.

As for a pda phone, I never used my pda when I had it.

The term "entry level phone" is ignorant.
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Operaman

Nov 24, 2004, 12:33 AM
Yeah I hear what you're saying about the market-speak there.
Worst thing is that eventually "entry level" will grow to have the same poor connotations that "cheap" does and then they'll come up with something even more obfuscated.

But about the camera thing...
I don't actually own a cell phone yet (yeah my flurry of posts here is a result of my digging into cell phone research so I buy the right thing!) and I'm weighing out the option of getting a built in camera.

The only reason I consider that is b/c I carry my digital camera around with me all the time.
It's no tiny one either, a Canon A-60.
It comes in pretty useful for me at work; catching precise error messages and videoing the console on a UNIX box that isn't booting but is ...
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