May 202008
Australian Carrier Telstra has added Palm’s Centro smartphone to its line-up of phones sold to pre-paid customers(aka folks who don’t want/need a contract with monthly fees).
The device will cost 299$(IMHO, approx as much as it costs unlocked) and will initially ship SIM-locked to Telstra’s SIM cards according to the PalmInfoCenter.
For me, this really shows that demographics the Treo is targetted at. Yes, I used an old Treo on prepaid long times ago – but I was the exception rather than the norm back then(not wanting to subsidy T-Mobile Austria).
People on prepaid generally are very light users – developers IMHO should not expect much revenue from these folks…
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oh so they have appreciated retail marketing already. i like pre-paid. no monthly dues to think about. good day!
“People on prepaid generally are very light users”
Generally speaking, yes. And with prepaid-package phones even more so. But as one can see from the forums on http://www.nexave.de prepaid is often an option even for power-users.
Keep on the good work!
Hi Folks,
thank you so much for the praise!
The issue I have with Austrian Pre-Paid is that data costs are insane…along the lines of 5€ for just 10MB.
Other than that, it definitely is a possibility for voice only. I once had my Treo 600 on prepaid…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
A, well … that price-rate explains it indeed. Currently one can go prepaid on 2,40 EUR for 10 MB over here which makes it acceptable even for people like skybert and others.
Hi,
hmm…2.4€ for 10MB…at my usage of 100MB/Month and more I’d pay more than 20€ for the data alone…
IMHO, it all depends on usage…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
I guess prepaid option is best .. no need to worry about monthly dues , taxes etc