$50 Android

Behold the death of Nokia and RIM in emerging markets: the dual-SIM Android 2.2 phone with analogue (PAL, NTSC, SeCAM) TV.

Yours for $50 wholesale. 

(Chosen at random from Ali Baba. )

For comparison, Nokia’s ASP for its non-smart phones - the ones running Series 40 - is $40. How sustainable do you think that is? And yet that business is 50% of Nokia’s revenues. 

Benedict Evans