Samsung talks about Android phones ‘well under $100′

on 08/06/2009 18:31 PDT

Samsung to price Android phones 'well under $100'

During this morning’s announcement of the Sprint Samsung Reclaim, the product manager of the Reclaim (Casey Ryan) was quoted saying that a year from now, touch phones running Android will be available for well under $100.

Cheaper is often better (for us), but we think that Casey Ryan was talking about subsidized prices here. In which case, it’s only mildly surprising. By next year, a phone like the MyTouch 3G will cost a lot less than it does now as that level of capabilities slides towards the low-end.

Overall, that’s great because if Android was to become some kind of “minimal level of usability” for phones, it would lift the whole industry up.

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

Samsung Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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