Available in black, pink or white, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a large, flagship phone and therefore commands a premium price.
In the process, they made some sobering discoveries about the party culture that dominates large flagship universities and how it reinforces differences of social class.
But the store, said Terry Pillow, the chief executive, is "one of the most expensive locations" the company operates — "in a similar range" as a recently opened, significantly larger, flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
While the rest of the market has been stretching phone screen sizes, Sony has been offering smaller "Compact" phones since 2013 fitting the same processor and camera from its larger flagship phones into a more manageable size.
CaixaBank, a big Spanish lender, has taken the next step, sending iPad-wielding salesmen out of the branch altogether, to call on clients at their offices.Uniform branch formats are being replaced by a range of set-ups, from large flagship "stores" to poky ones with just a couple of desks.
Sony has squeezed all of the components from its larger flagship 5in phone, the Xperia Z1, into the Z1 Compact's smaller frame with a 720p high definition screen which, at 340ppi, has a higher pixel density than Apple's 4in iPhone 5S with its 326ppi "retina display" screen.
The committee called for three classes of missions: small-scale projects costing under $325 million each, which, it said, should be launched every 18 months; midsize missions costing up to $650 million, to be sent off every two to three years; and a large, "flagship" project once a decade, similar to the current Cassini mission to Saturn, typically costing more than $1 billion.
Still, sales of its large flagship sedan, the RL, are stunted by its V-6.
A lot of it is similar to what you can find at any of Japanese company's much larger flagship stores in London, New York or Tokyo.
It confirmed a strategy of closing small stores and concentrating on larger flagship stores, such as the recent purchase of a building in New York's SoHo, which will house a new flagship Zara store.
