On 5 July 2012 20:34, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote: ...
Telefonica is in talks with six additional handset makers, Matthew Key, the head of the company’s digital unit, said at the investor meeting.
“We’re overly reliant on Android and that’s not a strategically strong position to be in,” he said.
To persuade Latin American consumers to upgrade to smartphones, and not take an Android device, the devices will need to be priced at about $100, Domingo said.
I don't think people is going back to the dumbphone experience. Using a smarphone with a app shop is like a religious experience that change how people think about software. Even Windows users are changed "You mean I can download and test any game in seconds, by only knowing the name?, and that will not break the os, or make it less stable?, just to be sure... theres hundreds of games and apps like that to download? :-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
The more people use a smarphone, the less people that will want to use a phone designed following the specifications of Telefonica.
Plus Telefonica may decide that the browser in that phone should not use Google, but some self-made search engine. Or his own wikipedia, and not the best one wikipedia :D