How does cellular technology affect phone cost?

There are many low cost phones under $50, and many that cost $100 to almost
$300 dollars. So my question is what is it in the technology or electronics
of the phone that can allow for the difference in cost?

Winton Goyal wrote:
> There are many low cost phones under $50,

No, there aren't.

There are many phones *discounted* to $50 or less, but there are no phones
that actually retail for that low an amount.

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"Winton Goyal" <winton11@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> There are many low cost phones under $50, and many that cost $100 to
> almost
> $300 dollars. So my question is what is it in the technology or
> electronics
> of the phone that can allow for the difference in cost?

It's definatly not the technology.

Features. Things like cameras, more memory positions for say 500 phone book
entries instead of 250, (some like) flip phones, bluetooth, infared etc.....
It's the othere thngs that make them cost and not the technology.

In message <db9t7o$nhb$2@ratbert.glorb.com> Steve Sobol
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

>Winton Goyal wrote:
>> There are many low cost phones under $50,
>
>No, there aren't.
>
>There are many phones *discounted* to $50 or less, but there are no phones
>that actually retail for that low an amount.

Boost Mobile's i215 is $49.90 flat out, no contract, nothing else.

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