Tuesday 18 June 2013
10 weird phones at CTIA
For a kind of phone maker, the CTIA trade show floor is our dreams. The largest wireless trade show in the US is the possibility of a little-known Smartphone manufacturers, mostly from China, to try to get the U.s. distributors to take a look at them.
Here is how the process goes: a smaller phone brand than Verykool or Amgoo or Unnecto brings to the booth and show a bunch of phones that you have ever seen before. Designed to appeal to the guys who supply the corner cell-phone shops, "indirects", who built the unlocked phone with prepaid SIM cards. If it is lucky, it will also make love in the context of a small virtual carrier, how simple the Just5 phone maker has made the Red Pocket Mobile.
At the end of the game is to get the real u.s. wireless attention, because in this country. A few people get this, but if they can they raise themselves to the level of the Coolpad's, having private meetings among the Tracfone executives in the Venetian hotel.
The innovation environment of the little guys actually varies. For example, it is obvious that whoever makes the Huawei Ascend Mate 6.1-inch panels are dark because of the show floor is quite lousy 6.1-inch phablets. I've seen a few that look the same, with the exception of the name of the company printed on the back. The other end of the spectrum is Amgoo, which is still rocking the feature phone models such as the bizarre, the pill, that people thought they were freaky in 2005.
During the Decade of the CTIA shows I've seen a lot of these little guys come and go, and they rarely break down. In the best case they can find success in Latin America, such as the Verykool and Unnecto have done a lot more on the open market. And some of the little guys can really use some trade organizations: business card here, the guy is a Maxwest Telecom called "Eddie 's." Yes, his business card does not have a name for it. What is this, the witness protection for Telecom?
Click through a slideshow of interesting new phone, you'll probably never see on the shelves here in the United States some mainstream devices, take a look at the Kyocera phones at CTIA.
