HMD announces the Barbie phone
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- Zaini
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- 30 Aug 2024
justasmile, 30 Aug 2024I get it, I know some people still want a feature phone, bu... moreAnd if you know about branding.
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- vjq
- 30 Aug 2024
Zaini, 29 Aug 2024Dumbphone still have good selling. Digital detox quite popu... moreI get it, I know some people still want a feature phone, but again, not at this price. You know you're paying 130 EUR for this right?
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- 30 Aug 2024
They're too late. Hype for the latest Barbie movie already died.
I think HMD and Mattel had this collaboration while the movie was in production and HMD was slow to release.
Just like all their other phones: 1 year too late with last year's chips and dips.
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- Zaini
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- 29 Aug 2024
Leanzazzy, 29 Aug 2024Hey, I have a plain old sheet of paper. I'm going to d... moreIf you believe in branding, example i have iphone and infinix likes iphone. I sell my infinix to you 800 usd because same design and spec with my iphone. Will you buy it?
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- Zaini
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- 29 Aug 2024
justasmile, 29 Aug 2024If you have read my comment properly, I said that this is o... moreDumbphone still have good selling. Digital detox quite popular among gen z, and barbie branding not for most niche.
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- vjq
- 29 Aug 2024
Zaini, 29 Aug 2024You say overpriced just by spec not a whole value. Some peo... moreIf you have read my comment properly, I said that this is overpriced to many of us (and even by looking at it overall). Even most of the 'niche' won't want it.
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- 29 Aug 2024
justasmile, 29 Aug 2024Again, none of what you say change the fact that this is ov... moreYou say overpriced just by spec not a whole value. Some people may have different perspective.
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- 29 Aug 2024
Carol-, 29 Aug 2024N95 was as you said, a Symbian smartphone. Do not confuse s... moreNokia naming confusing, s30, s40 for their feature, s60, and s80 use in their communicator, symbian uiq use in sony ericsson p series. Before android era, no term smartphone, only java phone or symbian phone. Java, c++, phyton, or kotlin is programming language and even android still use java, can run java app via emulator. Java touch-based phone before Android is commonly multimedia-centric.
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- vjq
- 29 Aug 2024
Carol-, 29 Aug 2024It is overpriced in comparison to what? I am not saying tha... moreAgain, none of what you say change the fact that this is overpriced to many of us, especially given its specs and 130 euro price tag. As much as of a HMD 'fan' you are, you seriously can't be defending this one.
(I ain't reading all of that nonsense, so I used chatGPT - feel free to tell me if I missed any 'detail')
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- 29 Aug 2024
Zaini, 29 Aug 2024N95 in its time, was smarter than most PDAs from palm, O2, ... moreN95 was as you said, a Symbian smartphone. Do not confuse s40 to s60, s does not mean symbian, it means series, and series 40 was proprietary nokia os most probably based on java. Symbian is a full blown os created in c++
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- 29 Aug 2024
justasmile, 29 Aug 2024❌ doesn't make you any more correct. I'm not say... moreIt is overpriced in comparison to what? I am not saying that is not, i am asking you, what do you know about values? And how much everything costs? what do you know about economy and stock exchange? How do you make your analytics? By just watching the prices of a redundend low end "smartphone" from china? The price and value of a product is set by people and busnisses. If for you this has no value, it does not mean that it is overpriced. For me any device released by chinese brands have no value and i wouldn't pay a dime for them, cause even that would be too much, so i wouldn't use one not even for free. That does not mean tough, that the devices have no value or are overpriced for others, if it would be like that, there wouldn't be any chinese brand on the market. So, on what do you base your statement?
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- 29 Aug 2024
sadh, 29 Aug 202415 years ago, the Nokia dumb phone had 5MP camera ffs.15 years ago there were high end feature phones, mid-ragers and low end, you are talking more about high end ones that were not really cheap, passing the 200 € mark, i doubt that that kind of business would be a good thing this days, as we can all se, nobody understands the value if it's not a smartphone.
I mean, i couldn't care less about this device here, but i am also not here to bash left and right and ignorantly comparering it with smartphones. I mean there are smartphones at this price rage, but i rather use this then those, if it comes to that.
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- Zaini
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- 29 Aug 2024
sadh, 29 Aug 202415 years ago, the Nokia dumb phone had 5MP camera ffs.N95 in its time, was smarter than most PDAs from palm, O2, eten, in terms of multimedia and mature symbian ecosystem support.
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- 29 Aug 2024
Carol-, 28 Aug 2024As soon as i saw this comment ❌❌ doesn't make you any more correct.
I'm not saying people cannot have feature phones now, but this is overpriced purely for the Barbie design.
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- 29 Aug 2024
Anonymous, 29 Aug 2024Nearly 50% of the people watching Barbie in cinemas last ye... moreTrue , and there is no way this Gen z is going to buy a phone which compromises on their Snapchat, Insta and Youtube experiences
- Leanzazzy
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- 29 Aug 2024
Hey, I have a plain old sheet of paper. I'm going to dye it pink and charge $129 for it. Anyone interested? It even comes with a FREE pink pen!
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- 29 Aug 2024
David, 28 Aug 2024Honestly, who is this for? Middle aged women who want nosta... moreNearly 50% of the people watching Barbie in cinemas last year were gen Z.
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Aug 2024
Tech Guy, 28 Aug 2024Good Phone only for school or college going kids not for So... moreGood for addiction for sure. Still, it's not worth 130 euros, you pay 120 just for the branding here