Calling All Customers; Wal-Mart Discounts iPhone 5C

Interested in picking up Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 5C? You might want to consider dropping by Wal-Mart — the concession department store has lowered the price of Apple Inc.'s most colorful smart-phone to just $45 with a two-year contract.

Wal-Mart was already selling the iPhone 5C for $79 — $20 below Apple Inc.'s MSRP — and has now cut the price by another $35. Why the prices drop? We're pretty sure it's related to Best Buy's current promotion of the iPhone 5C for $50 (thanks to a $50 Best Buy gift card promotion).

While Best Buy's price cut will last through the weekend, Wal-Mart tells us that "consumers can expect this low price throughout the festive period." That's big news for users who are on the lookout for adding or upgrading an iPhone to their wireless plans in the next few months.

This isn't the first time Wal-Mart has undercut Apple Inc.'s prices (with a two-year contract) on the iPhone. This year in the closing month of June, the corporation has made first-time cuts to the prices of their iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S.

In the past, Apple Inc. has severely limited the degree to which retailers can reduce its products. For the most part since they have been industry leaders and have already been best sellers in their market-share.

As we said earlier, Apple Inc. has severely limited the degree to which retailers can price cut its products. The fact that Wal-Mart has made this kind of price slash, within two weeks after the iPhone's launch, seems to point towards that Apple Inc.'s position on reducing — at the very least for phones —altered tremendously. A lower price point is also likely to drive more cost-conscious visitors to the iPhone shelves — and in turn, to Wal-Mart stores.

We don't get the impression that Wal-Mart is dropping the price because of lack of demand for the iPhone 5C, especially after Apple Inc. released that it sold 9 million iPhone 5S and 5C devices in its initial weekend. Somewhat, it is likely on the subject of chasing wireless contract sales.

The truth is; retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy don't make as much money from the subsidized devices as they do from new two-year agreements. That's one reason online retailers — most notably Amazon — is often willing to sell subsidized devices at such a price cut. It's not about selling phones; it's about signing users to new contracts.

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Samsung Crosses the 40 million Sales Milestone

In the past few weeks since the launch of the Apple Inc flagship products iPhone 5S and 5C there has been much talk about then huge size of Samsung Smart-phones. But say what anyone wants the bottom-line is that the Android mobile manufacturer has reportedly sold close to 40 million Galaxy Note devices in the recent two years with a majority of 30 million devices that of Galaxy Note II.

According to a recent report published by Focus Taiwan and stats provided by Sammobile.com the report says that Samsung achieved their 40million milestone within two weeks of making the 38million sales claim.

The recent quarter ended for Apple Inc brings to a close the sales of 31.2 million iPhones (5, 5S and 5C).

When launched, the smartphone market was highly skeptical if the 5.5” huge screened phone ill do any good in the market, since most people though that the phone will not be preferred by users who want to carry a phone and might not also fit into many pockets, however coming over all those fears, Samsung proved otherwise. Not only this, competitors such as Nokia and HTC have since launched phones that are exactly the same size or even larger.

The most successful phone among those phones that helped Samsung hit the 38 million mark was the Samsung Note II that was more than a phone and close to a tablet, also nicknamed (and started the industry trend for) phablets. The Note II phablet became successful right after it was launched into the market and was sold-out as it hit the market as a hot cake. Not only this, just two months down the line from its initial launch the Samsung Galaxy Note II had a sales figure of 5 million.

Having said that, Samsung recently launched their newest phablet into the market with added features, the Galaxy Note III. Samsung’s CEO is positive that the phablet will break the previous record for Note II and will create a new sales record of over 10 million devices sold in the first two months of launch (this is what we all have to wait and watch happen).

The Galaxy Note II (Note III’s predecessor) has a giant screen of 5.5”, comes under the new phone category “phablet”, and is usable with a stylus. But there is more than meets the eye, the phablet is packed with a 1.6GHz processor that helps it tackle multiple apps at once, RAM of 2GB while a storage of 64GB.

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