Google Makes The Smartphone Price Cheap

Next year the smartphone market will be flooded with many cheap devices . Research institute IDC predicts at least the smartphone vendors will be poured 1.7 million devices to the market .

In addition to large vendors such as Apple , Samsung , Sony , and LG , Chinese vendors will also produce more and more cheap smartphones .

Reported by Information Week , Wednesday ( 27/11/2013 ) , the increasing number of cheap smartphones has made the average selling price ( AVP ) smartphones fell by 12.8 percent during 2013 , from 387 U.S. dollars in 2012 to 337 U.S. dollars in , 2013.

IDC also predicts an average price of smartphones will continue to fall next year to around 265 U.S. dollars only.

" The main factor that makes the increase in the volume of smartphones next year is getting lower prices , " said Ramon Llamas , IDC's Research Manager of Mobile Phone . " Especially in the developing countries , where prices are still very important , " he added .

Each vendor is now calculated how the price can be reduced while still maintaining a profit and provide a reliable smartphone products .

According to Llamas , audiences deserve grateful to Android over the decline in the average price of a smartphone is because Google gives the Android operating system to manufacturers for free .

That's why emerging smartphone manufacturers that use the Android OS and produce it at low cost , such as ZTE , Huawei , Coolpad , and so on so that it can compete with the veterans , such as Samsung and LG .

Meanwhile, according to Ryan Reith , program director of IDC , the market conditions have changed drastically due to a decrease in the average price of this smartphone .

" A few years ago racing industry one billion people connect even more , they are considered feature phones as appropriate devices . However , with declining ASP , the smartphone is now a realistic device to connect one billion human beings before, " said Reith .

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