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And for those who still could not afford their own handsets, help was at hand in the form of microfinance.
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The new handsets helped Nokia raise the average selling price of Lumia phones in the quarter to €186, up 33 percent from €140 in the quarter a year earlier.
Today's handsets helped popularise the kind of sophisticated games that used to be restricted to dedicated mobile games machines, and larger home consoles.
Instead, the company insists gauging consumer reaction before rolling out more handsets helps it keep prices down.
The cheap price of the new Curve handset helped, too: a new Blackberry Curve 8520 handset without a contract can cost £110, versus £426 for the high-end BlackBerry Bold or £480 for the iPhone 4S.
In either case, the U.S. market is all but officially lost to RIM, so the new WP handsets should help Microsoft surge past the beleaguered Waterloo handset maker.
If Skype did win, wireless carriers would be forced to jack up the price of handsets to help balance out losses.
So they build services and handsets that help families stay connected.
This is a mixed blessing for network operators: offering a snazzy new handset can help them attract customers, but many users are more loyal to their handset-maker than to their operator.
This lets them apply their own branding to the handsets and helps them to differentiate themselves from rival operators.For example, Orange, a European mobile operator owned by France Telecom, sells own-brand smartphones that are built by HTC, yet another Taiwanese ODM, and powered by software from Microsoft.
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