HTC Aria now on sale through AT&T

i meant phones

and the galaxy/captivate

@carmen

solid point. AT&T has spent too much money garnering to Apple’s needs tat they really can’t afford a big purchase on the Android spectrum. Hence, someone like Matt would think that AT&T is doing everything they can to have everyone use an iPhone.

@Matt

it’s not that they want everyone using an iPhone, but i can see why you think that. the iPhone saved AT&T and is undeniably they’re biggest, and best selling product but that doesn’t mean they want everyone using one. I’m sure they are plenty of people out there that can afford one but cost the company more money so in turn AT&T would not want them to have one.

ok since we are talking about att spending so much money hows this sound.
this phone is 180 bucks with a 36 act fee at any att cor store. its free on dells site and their waiving the act fee, thats a total of 216 bucks cheaper than at the actualy store. dells commission from one sale must be a little more than the 4 dollars commision the rep makes.

and if you really stated “att cant afford” you need to check ya math brah.
80 million customers. some spend 3k a month some spend 50. whats 80millx50?
now muliply that by 24 months. they also have almost 3million people on uverse thats at least $100 a month. they have more customers on dsl internet that any provider in the world. thats 30 bucks a month. they have landlines that have been in the ground for 100+ years that people pay them rent for each day. they have 2k retail store nationwide that have to sell 500 phones a month. with a 20 dollar feature attach rate. thats a minium plan of 40 dolalrs with a 20 text or data plan. so 60 bucks a month times 500 times 2k. thats each month. so times that by 12 months in a year and add it to the total revenue. roughly 4.34 trillion dollars. we havent even begun. how about the phones. do you honestly think the blackberry bold retailed for 450 for att when they bought 785000 of them? how about the car charger from taiwan that cost 3 cents in parts and 4 cents in labor and 2 dollars to ship it and thats being curtuous. than they sell it for 30 bucks! whats the markup on that. each store has to be at a total of 60 dollars in accessories per phone. so take that 500 phones a month times it by 60 and thats your monthly profit for pos accessories. did you know that att is pushing fiber from their uverse to their towers. thats a bandwidth that could crush anyone, hold capacity of thousands more than it can now. uverse has the potential to push 100mbps but they cap it just like apple does on there gb memory. they hold off on everything and milk every penny they can. did you know att cut their reps commision by half becuase of the economy? but their goals went up and att hit an all time high revenue?

@yea

First of all, you can’t really group all of the AT&T landline stuff in with the wireless company. AT&T Mobility is its own company and has to stand on its own two feet.

Secondly, the point that I was trying to make was that contradictory to what Matt posted above me, AT&T would rather have people buy the Aria over the iPhone because that phone surely has a better markup than the iPhone and the users will likely use less data whilst subscribing to the same data plan as iPhone users, thus taxing the AT&T servers a bit less, which will save them money.

Finally, to solidify my point using the Dell free promotion as an example. Dell is signing up customers and giving them the phone for free because they are getting a kickback from AT&T, no doubt a bit more than it’s costing them to buy the phones. It’s all automated and over the internet, so it doesn’t cost them much and they make money from the kickback. The point is that because these phones cost AT&T a lot less to buy from HTC, they have more wiggle-room to sell the device and still be profitable.

I don’t see why anyone would buy this for $30 more than an iPhone 3GS.

While you’re doing all this math why don’t you take a look at any financial statement and show us this 4.34 trillion dollars you speak of? Take a look at any popular finance website and read the cash flow statements, Income or balance sheets. “you need to check ya math brah.”

Granted it sucks for you if your a rep, but at least keep the numbers someone what inline. Do oil companies even make a trillion in revenue in a year?? And they sitting on the biggest cash cows there is….jeez

The only thing that worries me about this phone is its longevity. Considering it’s 600mhz cpu, I wonder if it will eventually get froyo, and if it does, I wonder if it will get a “full” version of froyo (with flash and live wallpapers). I’m not so sure the msm7227 is up to the task of acceptably rendering flash videos.

That said, the only thing I don’t like about the phone in its current state is that they basically took the HTC Legend and took the cool out of it by removing the unibody case and the amoled screen (I’m assuming to make a cheaper device). I don’t care about the unibody case so much, but I was really looking forward to the amoled screen, if only for the fact that it’s so much more power efficient than a regular lcd.