Howcome they are popular in the US and UK yet they've not made an appearance here?
The US has had them for the last 3 years or so and the UK too but I've never heard of anyone trying to market them here
Disposable Mobile Phones
Jul 13, 2005
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I've never seen them since I've been living in the UK.
Apart from the environmental concerns, to me it seems like a pretty silly idea for economic reasons also.
Do we need them? There's enough plastic bottles and fast food packaging laying around, do we need more trash? Tom
I've never seen one in the US, but I do see the prepay type that you can add minutes to by buying them in blocks. The cards are available a lot of places, and the cell phones are low end models, probably refurbs.
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Couldn't the $50 ones be considered disposable already :-)
MrT.
Vodafone had a deal a few months back selling some Motorola phone for $30. It was advertised as the 'Disposable Mobile'.
They sold out very quickly.
Most current phones are disposable. Let's see how many of the phones sold today are still in working condition in three years.
Thats because we already have cheap NON-DISPOSABLE phones
You are lucky to get a good 12-15 mths out of any new phone now
Michael wrote
Bullshit.
Of course they're disposable, they just aren't marketed as such.
MrT.
What are you talking about? In the seven years I've lived in the UK, I've never once heard anyone (or even in uk.telecom.mobile!) talk of a disposable phone.
Point me to where I can buy a phone marketed as such...
Cheers,
Jason.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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I have been lucky then. had a kyocera CDMA 3245 for about 2 years, no problem
i notice too that telstra techs still use the old model kyocera phones that have been around for many many years
Spectacular logic, and deduction.
I take my hat off to you
The ones I am talking about have only a kepad and no display. They can only dial a few preset numbers as well.
Here's some URLs that look interesting
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Interesting reading, but...
Apart from the first URL saying"TI's DRP technology may also have big implications for companies in the UK", there's not a single mention of any of those being available in the UK.
Cheers,
Jason.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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A: Top-posting.
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Pathetic excuse for bullshit.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:35:45 +1000, nva put finger to keyboard and composed:
IME, the relatively high price of replacement batteries is what renders a phone disposable.
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a good 12-15 mths out of any new phone now
I agree, your response was
Disagree, nowadays.
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