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Phones are more expensive than ever. Flagship devices from Apple, Samsung, Google, and other top manufacturers can now cost hundreds of dollars more than they did just a couple years ago. With extra storage, many of them reach well above $1,000. And with the arrival of foldable phones, which are being priced around and above $2,000, it looks like the upper limit for phone prices is going to keep growing.
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Correction: the OnePlus 6T costs $549, not $350, and the Moto G6 costs $250, not $180
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I had a 50$ Vodafone Smart Mini 7 as my fist phone and now I have a Motorola Moto E4 over 1,000 $
Nowadays ..apple don’t push anything
Why would I buy something so expensive. I want a fair price
Just bought a K20 pro. It’ll be cheapest and best phone I’ll have ever bought.
Hey I like that you have adjusted the cost for inflation, can you or someone please explain how it’s done? Seems like good thing to know?
hear this, economy got better
White folks are just greedy that’s all never satisfied with anything
I never bought apple phone & never will
Realme phone r great
Just saying if they keep getting the prices higher and higher…
I’m not going to be happy!
Makes a 1000+ dollar phone,
Doesn’t even have a headphone jack.
If a phone costs 20 bucks to make why does it cost 800 bucks to buy? Is that legal to over charge customers like that?
I use a can and a string for 50 cents.….beat that!
I am thinking of getting the Samsung s8 this year.
Apple, they set the trend
Apple charges so much cus people are willing to pay, its apple you buy an apple cus its apple
Because idiots who are willing to pay still exist. Supply and demand? No. More like pretentious hype and big marketing money.
The verge misses the point once again.
Spends most of video not really explaining
My phone is 300$ for selling its sell for 25$
Smartphones are getting more expensive as hell.
Phones are so expensive cause we gotta eat the cost of all the free tech all you guys get XD
Well to quote Jordan.. You want to sell something. Create an atmosphere of Emergency. As the less there is of something. The more it cost. That is the point.
Been a T‑Mobile customers since that contract announcement
You forgot the “salary” of the workers that actually make these phones.
I got the Moto G7 power and I really like it was like 250 a year ago and runs really great.
Supply and demand. Smartphones are popular so manufacturers bump up prices on parts/labour/marketing etc. I remember when a DVD rom in 2006 was 70–80 USD. When Flash memory rose and took the place of DVDs for storage their price fell to 15 USD. Any attempt to find another reason(other than supply and demand law) is lying to oneself. Check a flagship from 2013 and one from 2020, they have the same stuff.
2018 iPad is still gud
The Note 9 is $1400 on Samsungs shop. Thats almost double the price it was at release. They know how bad their new phones are.
Motorola phones are the sweet spot, I held on to my pixel 2 for 3+ years
I had the same cell for about 9 yrs and I never had IPhone and I would never owen iphone overpriced phone
Samsung. Is not expensive I got s10 for $300 brand new in 2019
Just by a less expensive phone then lol. I have a 2 year old phone that cost ~150USD and it does everything that I could possibly want it to do. It doesn’t even lag that much
RECENTLY BOUGHT A NOTE 9 FOR ABOUT about 380 dollars .…..🤣…LOKING FORWARD TO BUY S 21 IN 2025
It is expensive but you have to pay to play
You don’t need a video to explain this. Just one word can do it “Greed”.
There are luxury cars, bags, etc. Why not phones? 😆
They getting rid of all the things like sd card slot, 3g bands, chargers, and headphone jack but yet the prices are going up
It’s absolutely ridiculous. The phones all do the same damn things.
This guy is an obvious liar and a fraud!
Am I the last surviving soul that thinks cell phones have become a rude, overpowering and, at times disturbing subculture? They isolate people. You can’t have a conversation with people because the drift off scrolling on their damn phones. They were designed for safety reasons such as being stranded on the freeway. Not to show off your AWESOME new ringtone or include everyone on the bus in your speakerphone conversation about the dope party last night. Is anyone with me?
I bought A51 and it checks most of the boxes
The simple answer is the consumer is willing to pay it ,
But why is a full desktop computer so much cheaper? Those are now in the hundreds ( $400–600), not thousand. And I can but a small laptop for $200–300!
I think I’m happy with a $100 midrange phone. If it works, it works.